50 years ago: Junko Tabei, the first woman on the summit of Mount Everest
“I can’t understand why men make all this fuss about Everest – it’s only a mountain,” Junko Tabei once said. Fifty years ago today, on 16 May 1975 at 12.30 p.m. local time, the Japanese woman became the first woman to reach the highest point on earth at 8,849 meters. She was accompanied by Ang…