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Junko Tabei is born

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Date of birth: 22/09/1939 · Date of death: 20/10/2016

On 22 September 1939, Junko Tabei, a Japanese mountaineer known for being the first woman to climb Mount Everest (1975) and Shishapangma (1981), was born in Fukushima. She was also the first woman to complete the Seven Summits –

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