The 30th anniversary of the first ascent of the Mount Everest by Junko Tabei, a Japanese woman is being celebrated amidst various program today and tomorrow.
According to organizers Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA), NTB and Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) in association with various travels trade associations and municipalities are organizing a series of programs today and tomorrow to commemorate the 30 anniversary of this landmark achievement made by Junko Tabei.
A statement issued by NTB said, beside Tabei, Phantog, a member of Chinese Expedition who climbed Everest eleven days after Tabei on May 27, 1975 becoming the second woman to achieve this feat will be honored along with Tabei and other women climbers who are coming to attend this gala programme are from China, Japan, New Zealand, Slovenia, India, Denmark, England, Ireland, Iran and Nepal.
Tabei and other women mountaineers will be taken to Hanumandhoka Durbar Square from Sahid Gate by horse-driven-carriages, followed by police band and members of various travel trade associations and government officials for civic reception to be given by Kathmandu Metropolis and other municipalities of Kathmandu valley tomorroiw.
She will proceed to International Mountaineers’ Memorial Park, Kakani for tree plantation after the felicitation. She will fly to Lukla in the Everest Region on November 2 to oversee Apple Project at Chhoplong and will trek to Kalapathar.
Junko Tabei scaled the summit of Mt Everest becoming the first woman in the world to achieve this feat on May 16, 1975.
A thirty-five-year-old ex-schoolteacher from Tokyo, Japan, Junko Tabei was a member of the first ‘all-women’s’ expedition to Everest comprising fourteen women climbers and twenty-three Sherpas led by Mrs Eiko Hisano and sponsored by the Tokyo Women’s Mountaineering Club.
Her Majesty Queen Komal Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah is scheduled to grace a function organized to mark the 30th anniversary of ascent on Everest by Tabei, this afternoon.
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