A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko
\nTabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.<\/p>\n
Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko
\nTabei\u2019s stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and interesting
\nto mountaineering culture. Until now, her works have been available only in
\nJapanese, and RMB is honoured to be sharing these profound and moving stories
\nwith the English-speaking world for the first time.<\/p>\n
The collection opens on Mount Everest, where the first all-women\u2019s expedition
\nis met with disaster but pushes on against all odds. The story then shifts to
\nthe early years of Tabei\u2019s life and reflects on her countryside childhood as a
\nfrail girl with no talent for sport, and cultural expectations that ignored
\nher passion for mountains.<\/p>\n
With reminiscences of the early days of female climbers on Everest, the deaths
\nof fellow mountaineers, Tabei\u2019s pursuit of Mount Tomur, a cancer diagnosis,
\nand efforts to restore a love for nature in the surviving youth of the
\nFukushima earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, this beautifully
\ncurated collection of essays captures the essence of a notable time and the
\nstrength of character of one of the 20th and 21st centuries\u2019 female
\nmountaineering pioneers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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