Junko Tabei, the First Woman to Climb Everest: "Her Companions Stopped Talking to Her"

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Moving on to history requires sacrifices. And Junko Tabei (Miharu, 1939), the first woman to peak at Everest, made them. Both in the family and in the professional arena. That is the background of 'Lady Everest', the documentary that narrates in the first person and with interviews of direct witnesses the life of the Japanese mountaineer, presented by Isabel Díaz Novo this Thursday at the BBK Mendi festival in Bilbao after an arduous research wo…