Japanese pioneering mountaineer Junko Tabei, accompanied by her Sherpa guide Ang Tsering becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on, May 16, 1975 and the 40th person to do so. She went on to become the first woman to ascend all the "Seven Summits", the highest mountains on every continent on June 28, 1992, when she summited Puncak Jaya in Australasia.
Just 12 days before her Mt. Everest success, on May 4, 1975, her camp was buried by an avalanche, leaving her injured but determined to continue. More
