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Detailed explanation-1: -Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. She was a Japanese mountaineer. She also became the first woman to ascend all the Seven Summits (highest mountains of seven continents) by climbing the highest peak on every continent.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1975, Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei became the first woman to conquer the mountain. Three years later, Reinhold Messner of Italy and Peter Habeler of Austria achieved what had been previously thought impossible: climbing to the Everest summit without oxygen.

Detailed explanation-3: -More than 40 years after she became the first woman to climb the world’s highest mountain, Junko Tabei has died at age 77, according to Japanese media. Tabei was just 4’9", but she was a giant in mountaineering, as the first woman to conquer the “Seven Summits” - the tallest peak on each continent.