Junko Tabei

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Junko Tabei 1985 at the peak of communism

Junko Tabei ( Jap. 田部井淳子 , Tabei Junko * 22. September 1939 in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture , † 20th October 2016 in Kawagoe ) was a Japanese climber who on 16 May 1975 as the first woman to summit of Mount Everest climb Has.

Life

When Tabei climbed the Nasu-dake in Nikko National Park at the age of ten, this experience changed her life. She studied English literature at Shōwa University and joined the local mountaineering club. In 1969 she founded a mountaineering club. Together with her husband, she climbed several Japanese mountains in addition to Mount Fuji , as well as the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps .

In 1972 Tabei was considered one of the best mountaineers in Japan. The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper and Nippon TV decided to put together an all-women team to climb Mount Everest. From hundreds of applicants for this expedition , 15 women were finally selected, including Junko Tabei.

After long, hard training, the team traveled to Kathmandu in the spring of 1975 and put together a Sherpa team. It used the same route as the first climbers Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary . In early May, the team was camping at an altitude of 6,300 meters when the camp was buried in an avalanche . The participants were buried under the snow masses. Junko Tabei lost consciousness for about six minutes before a Sherpa dug her up.

In 1992 Junko Tabei was the first woman to climb the Seven Summits , the highest mountains on all seven continents.

Honor

  • On May 23, 2000, an asteroid was named after her: (6897) Tabei .
  • In 2019, Junko Tabei was honored with a doodle by the search engine Google on the occasion of her 80th birthday .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Junko Tabei's website ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 22, 2016 (Japanese). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.junko-tabei.jp
  2. ↑ Junko Tabei, world's 1st woman to scale Mt. Everest, dies at 77 . ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jiji Press article on The Japan News , October 22, 2016, accessed October 22, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / the-japan-news.com
  3. ↑ Tab. Kleť Observatory , Budweis, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 22, 2016 (English, naming the asteroid (6897) Tabei).
  4. ↑ Junko Tabei: A Google doodle for the 80th birthday of the Japanese record climber. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tabei, Junko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田 部 井 淳 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese climber
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 2016
Place of death Kawagoe