Japanese citizen Junko Tabei is the first woman to climb the highest peak, Mount Everest. She climbed Mount Everest on May 16, 1975, about 51 years ago.

While returning from climbing Mount Everest, the Sherpa women of Manju village in Solukhumbu gave her apples to eat. The fact that the woman was happy to see a woman climbing Mount Everest for the first time and fed her a four-month-old apple deeply touched Tabei. At that time, she had the idea of ​​planting apples in that village. That is why she had brought a program to plant apple trees in that village since the 1950s.

In a news published in Kantipur on Mangsir 25, 2054, she said, ‘When I went to climb Mount Everest, only the sound of the milkweed could be heard.’ Now, you can see it. The trees that cover it have been cut down.'

Seeing that the destruction could not be stopped by planting more trees, Tabei had planned to attract locals to apple farming. She aimed to provide local people with economic income and forest growth through apple farming. She planted 200 apple trees in 1995 and 50 in 1996. Tabei, who came to Nepal to inspect the apples and distribute additional seedlings, said that the rightful owners of the apples produced would be local farmers.

She suggested that the apples could be sold in the local market and if that was not possible, they should be transported to Lukla market. She had suggested to Nepal three decades ago, 'You can make apple juice and dry fruits and sell them.' She was very conscious about increasing the income of the Himalayan villagers. She said that apples should not be seen as a price but as a symbol of the love she had shown towards Nepal.

Born in 1939, Tabei's birthplace, Japan, is famous for its apple production. That's why she said she would bring advanced apple seedlings from Japan and plant them in Nepal. She said that Nepalese apples were sweeter than those from Japan.

Tabei, who completed her master's degree in English literature in 1962, climbed Mount Nasu in Japan with her school teacher at the age of 10. She was also the president of the Japanese Women's Climbing Club. She was the first to climb Mount Annapurna in Nepal.

During an interview with Kantipur, she said that she initially felt that climbing the mountain ranges of Nepal was very challenging. She added that she got the courage to climb Mount Everest after climbing Annapurna, "However, I tried by watching documentaries and doing research." She succeeded the first time.'

She said that she would not climb Everest again because she preferred to climb new mountains. She was the first woman to reach not only Everest, but also the highest peaks of all seven continents. She had climbed the highest mountains in Africa, America, Europe and Oceania. She said that it was difficult to climb mountains in Nepal without the help of Sherpas. She said that she gave the credit for climbing Everest to the Sherpas.

She argued that since it was becoming easier to climb Everest now, it should not be made a commercial activity to earn money. After climbing Everest, Nepal honored her with the title of 'Gorkha Dakshinbahu'. She was happy that the medal was the biggest, saying, "I didn't get such an honor even from my own country, Japan." She said that she was invited to mountain-related seminars in Japan, but she did not receive much financial support from her own country.

She was happy that her biography was included in the school curriculum in Nepal, saying, "But, my face is not that popular." She said that those who met her for the first time were surprised, saying, "How could such a small person have climbed such a high mountain?"

The first woman to climb Mount Everest's love and goodwill towards Nepal was published as a news story by journalist Mukunda Bogati for Kantipur Daily on November 25, 2001. The headline of the news was - "Mount Everest climbing should be controlled: Tabei."

Almost two decades after Tabei climbed Everest, Nepali woman Pasang Lhamu Sherpa climbed Everest on April 10, 2050. She climbed Everest, but died in an avalanche on the way back. On May 29, 1953, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Edmund Hillary became the first human to set foot on Everest.