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Junko Tabei

1939 - 2016

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Junko Tabei (Japanese: 田部井 淳子, Hepburn: Tabei Junko; née Ishibashi; 22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016) was a Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent. Tabei wrote seven books, organized environmental projects to clean up trash left behind by climbers on Everest, and led annual climbs up Mount Fuji for youth affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. An astronomer named asteroid 6897 Tabei after her and in 2019, a mountain range on Pluto was named Tabei Montes in her honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Junko Tabei is the 6th most popular mountaineer (up from 7th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 155th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Mountaineer.

Junko Tabei is most famous for her work on the manga "Kimi ni Todoke" which was later adapted into an anime series.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Junko Tabei ranks 6 out of 56. Before her are Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Reinhold Messner, Heinrich Harrer, and Andrew Irvine. After her are Horace Bénédict de Saussure, George Mallory, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Jerzy Kukuczka, Jacques Balmat, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Junko Tabei ranks 33. Before her are Michèle Mercier, Harry Kroto, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Barbara Liskov, John Cleese, and George Lazenby. After her are F. Murray Abraham, Sidney Altman, Clay Regazzoni, Tzvetan Todorov, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, and Leka, Crown Prince of Albania. Among people deceased in 2016, Junko Tabei ranks 42. Before her are Kenny Baker, Harry Kroto, Carrie Fisher, James Cronin, Gabriele Amorth, and Alvin Toffler. After her are Andrzej Żuławski, Frano Selak, George Kennedy, Vera Rubin, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Reinhard Selten.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Junko Tabei ranks 93 out of 6,245. Before her are Kōbō Abe (1924), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Liv Ullmann (1938), Emperor Itoku (-553), Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), and Emperor Go-Momozono (1758). After her are Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), Date Masamune (1567), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Kūkai (774), and Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Japan

Among mountaineers born in Japan, Junko Tabei ranks 1. 

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