[NY Daily News rewriting wire service stories]
Junko Tabei, first woman to climb Mount Everest, dies aged 77
Tokyo - The first woman to climb Mount Everest didn't stop there.
Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, who died Thursday at 77, devoted her
adult life to scaling peaks, climbing the tallest mountains in more than
70 countries.
Her philosophy was to live life to the fullest. "I want to climb even more
mountains," she said in a 1991 interview with The Associated Press, 16
years after conquering Everest. "To think, 'It was great,' and then die."
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rest:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/junko-tabei-woman-climb-mount-everest-dies-aged-77-article-1.2841669
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