This woman took it to the top! Who became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest?

Also the first woman to climb the Seven Summits, the Japanese mountaineer, Junko Tabei, had a love for mountaineering from childhood. Heading a team of 15 women and 6 sherpas during her Everest ascent, an avalanche buried her camp but luckily there were no casualties. Just 12 days later she reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 16, 1975.

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