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On this day (May 16) in 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei successfully climbed Mount Everest. She is the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Junko achieved the feat 22 years after her first ascent. Born on September 22, 1939, Junko learned about mountain climbing at the age of 10. Since 1962, she was affiliated to the Himal Arohan Club. Junko made the third ascent of Annapurna on May 19, 1970 before climbing Mt.
He died of cancer on October 20, 2016. Tenzing Norge and Sir Edmund Hillary made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. It took them 16 days for Aaron. Born on May 29, 1914 in Solukhumbu, Nepal, Norge died on May 9, 1986 in Darjeeling. Hillary was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1919 and died on January 11, 2008.
Since Norgay and Hillary climbed, more than 7,000 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest. More than three hundred climbers have lost their lives during the climb. The mountain known as the 15th Chuli was named 'Mount Everest' in 1865 after the British surveyor Sir George Everest. In 1956 (year 2012), the historian Shiromani Baburam Acharya named it Sagarmatha.
