Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer and the first woman to reach Mount Everest summit. Besides, she is the first woman to ascend to the highest peaks of all the highest mountains in the seven continents, also called the Seven Summit. Born Junko Ishibashi, she was a mountaineer, author with seven books, and a teacher. Junko was also famous for climbing almost all the mountains in Japan. Besides climbing, she led environmental projects to collect litter left by mountaineers and other youth initiative projects such as holding guiding excursions on Mount Fuji. Junko also set up the Joshi-Tohan Club (Women's Mountaineering Club) for women only climbers.