"Do not give up – keep on your quest.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
-Junko Tabei (1939-2016)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Mountaineer, Japan⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Junko Tabei was born in Kawagoe Japan in 1939. Her interest in mountaineering was ignited by a classroom mountain-climbing expedition when she was a child. By 1992 Tabei had become the first woman to summit the highest mountain on each of the seven continents—the so-called Seven Summits. In addition, she attempted to reach the top of the highest mountain in each country, and she conquered some 70 of the peaks on that list! She later became an environmental advocate and completed graduate studies at Kyushu University, studying the impact of the garbage left on mountains by climbers. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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