Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Devendra M Singh, AFP/Getty Images Two legendary women Everest summiters, Japanese Junko Tabei (L) and Chinese Pang Duo (R) display their national flags at a ...

More than 40 years after she became the first woman to climb the world's highest mountain, Junko Tabei has died at age 77, according to Japanese media. Tabei was just 4'9", but she was a giant in ...

Many events are planned this year for the 75th anniversary of the first ascent of Annapurna, and the 70th anniversary of the first successful expeditions on Kangchenjunga and Makalu. But there is much ...

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It was May 4, 1975. The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were less than a week away from their scheduled bid for the summit of Mount ...

Google on Sunday is honoring Junko Tabei with an animated doodle marking what would have been the Japanese mountain climber’s 80th birthday. Tabei was the first woman to summit Mt. Everest, the ...

TOKYO - The first woman to climb Mount Everest didn’t stop there. Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, who died Thursday at 77, devoted her adult life to scaling peaks, climbing the tallest mountains in ...

Japanese media reports say the first woman to climb Mount Everest has died. Junko Tabei died Thursday of cancer at a hospital outside of Tokyo, according to the reports. She was 77. Tabei reached the ...

Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest, died of cancer on Thursday, Japanese media reported. She was 77. Tabei reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain in 1975. In 1992, she ...