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Phantog

Tibetan mountaineer
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  • Mount Everest
    Mount Everest
    / The first ascent by a woman

    …team included a Tibetan woman, Phantog, who reached the summit on May 27. The honors for the first woman to summit Everest, however, belong to the Japanese climber Tabei Junko, who reached the top from the South Col on May 16. She was climbing with the first all-women expedition to…

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    …team included a Tibetan woman, Phantog, who reached the summit on May 27. The honors for the first woman to summit Everest, however, belong to the Japanese climber Tabei Junko, who reached the top from the South Col on May 16. She was climbing with the first all-women expedition to…

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