What is Junko Tabei?
{{Infobox mountaineer|name=|image=Junko Tabei.jpg|caption=Tabei at Communism Peak in 1985|birth_place=[[Miharu]], [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]]|death_date={{death date and age |2016|10|20 |1939|09|22 |df=yes}}|nationality=|retirement_age=|birth_name=田部井 淳子|birth_date=22 September 1939}} {{nihongo|'''Junko Tabei'''|田部井 淳子|Tabei Junko|22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016}} was a [[Japan]]ese [[mountaineer]]. She was the first woman to reach the [[summit]] of [[Mount Everest]]. She completed her climb of Mount Everest in 1975. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/womens-sport/2019/11/28/moment-time-may-16-1975-junko-tabei-first-woman-reach-mount/|title=Moment in Time - May 16, 1975: Junko Tabei first woman to reach Mount Everest summit|last=Fawehinmi|first=Yolanthe|date=2019-11-28|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2020-06-11|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> She was also the first woman to climb all [[Seven Summits]] by climbing the highest peak on every continent. She was born in [[Miharu, Fukushima|Miharu]], [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]]. Tabei died of [[peritoneal cancer]] on 20 October 2016 in [[Kawagoe, Saitama|Kawagoe]], [[Saitama Prefecture|Saitama]]. She was 77.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/22/498971169/japanese-climber-junko-tabei-first-woman-to-conquer-mount-everest-dies-at-77|title=Japanese Climber Junko Tabei, First Woman To Conquer Mount Everest, Dies At 77|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=22 October 2016|access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tabei, Junko}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Japanese sportspeople]] [[Category:Mountain climbers]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Fukushima Prefecture]] {{Bio-stub}} {{authority control}}