RIP Junko Tabei, First Women to Climb Mt. Everest

In early May of 1975, a women was buried under snow after an avalanche struck their camp in Nepal. She was dug out by her Sherpa's after losing consciousness for a while. And just twelve days later, she became the first women on earth to have climbed Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world.

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Junko Tabei, first woman on Everest! [Photo Credit]

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Her name was Junko Tabei, a Japanese, and a mother, who created history and inspired a generation of women to do the same. But on the 20th of Oct. 2016, she succumbed to cancer at the age of 77, and the world lost another women of courage who shall not be forgotten in a hurry.

But she had another first too. She was also the first women to conquer the Seven Summits, which are the highest peaks in every continent, and became an inspiration and a legend in her lifetime. Always a humble soul, she used to always say that she was the 36th to reach the top, when people heaped praises on her for her feat.

Though she was diagonised with cancer around five years ago, she did not let it stop her, and carried climbing peaks till she succumbed to the disease. The world has lost another soul, who will still inspire generations from beyond the grave, for such individuals do not die in the minds of people they have inspired.

RIP Junko, the world will miss you.

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