The Most Famous
MOUNTAINEERS from Japan
This page contains a list of the greatest Japanese Mountaineers. The pantheon dataset contains 56 Mountaineers, 1 of which were born in Japan. This makes Japan the birth place of the 13th most number of Mountaineers behind Spain, and Russia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Japanese Mountaineers of all time. This list of famous Japanese Mountaineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Junko Tabei (1939 - 2016)
With an HPI of 62.82, Junko Tabei is the most famous Japanese Mountaineer. Her biography has been translated into 52 different languages on wikipedia.
Junko Tabei (Japanese: 田部井 淳子, Hepburn: Tabei Junko, née Ishibashi; 22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016) was a Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent. Tabei wrote seven books, organized environmental projects to clean up rubbish left behind by climbers on Everest, and led annual climbs up Mount Fuji for youth affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. An astronomer named asteroid 6897 Tabei after her and in 2019, a mountain range on Pluto was named Tabei Montes in her honour.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Japanese mountaineers born between 1939 and 1939. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Japanese mountaineers include Junko Tabei.
