The first woman at the top of Everest / day

On Saturday, May 17, 1975, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a formal announcement to the media – a day earlier, the 35 -year -old Tabei climbed the world’s most powerful peak, 8848 meters high in Everest, writes The Japan Times. This message dominated radio and television news as well as on Sundays in Japanese newspapers. Journalists competed in trying to establish the smallest information about the expedition and the details of the life story of the heroine itself. Thanks to international news agencies, people in many parts of the world also learned about Tabei – after all, she was the first woman to stand on the roof of the world, as Everest is often called.

National Geographic Recalls that on May 29, 1953, the first conquerors of this mountain became New Zealand Edmunds Hillary and the local Sherpa Tenzing Norgey. For those with a stranger’s fascination, it seemed that interest in Everest would be lost for a simple reason: if you were not the first to achieve something like that, it is not even worth trying. But the climbers of the mountain are in other thoughts – they do not seek some records, but do what they enjoy. In an interview given in 1996 Sports Illustrated This was also pointed out by Tabei. « At no time, I was not driven by the thought of becoming the first woman to climb Everest. At no time, I think that the potential rivals should be overtaken. I just wanted to get there and everything, » she said.

The modest Japanese did not need to be praised as the first woman to reach Everest’s peak, both in her memoirs and in countless interviews, she always stressed that 35 people had been at the summit: « And I’m thirty -six. »

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Born in September 22, 1939, Junko Isibasi (such is her daughter’s surname), childhood and teenage years were no honeymoon, as Japanese military aggression and involvement in World War II eventually led to state capitulation and exposure to Americans, CNN reports. The war and her family did not affect the war – they lived in a relatively remote region near Fukushima, where there was actually no war.