The mountain climber Junko Tabei is a mountain climber with some amazing stories to tell. She is famous because she was the first woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
In 1975, a Japanese newspaper and a Japanese TV station decided to send a team of Japanese women to Nepal to climb Everest. They advertised for climbers and hundreds of women applied. In the end, they chose 15 climbers, and Junko Tabei was one of them. The © Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2016 women spent a long time in training before they left Japan and travelled to Nepal. They found nine local Sherpa people to guide them, and then they started on their climb. They camped at 6,000 metres, then, 12 days later, Junko arrived at the top of the mountain and made history.
Today, Junko lives in Japan. She often goes climbing but she doesn’t go up very high mountains these days. In fact, she spends more time working on environmental projects. She wants to protect the natural habitat of Mount Everest and other mountains.
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Junko Tabei climbed Mount Everest in the 1970s.
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