Japanese pioneering mountaineer Junko Tabei, accompanied by her Sherpa guide Ang Tsering becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the 40th person to do so.
On June 28, 1992 she also became the first woman to ascend all the "Seven Summits", the highest mountains on every continent, when she summited Puncak Jaya i Australasia. More
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