Japanese climber Junko Tabei was part of an-woman team climbing Mount Everest. Despite almost being crushed in an avalanche, ...

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

Junko Tabei's summit of Everest on May 16, 1975 was not her hardest battle. It took her a lifetime to be acknowledged as a true pioneer.

who had sent her a signed Japanese soldier's skull. The May 22, 1944, issue of Life magazine — archived by Google Books — featured the original printing of the photo of the woman and skull.

First published in Japan in 2017, the English translation by Polly Barton was released last year to global acclaim. The novel ...

Historically, men have dominated the public record in mountaineering. In the last few years, the 70th anniversary of the first summit of Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay has ...

Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry ...

WWE Superstar Liv Morgan recently received a heartfelt message from a popular 42-year-old non-wrestling star. The star also ...

Burlingame poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra decided that if she was going to write a book on motherhood, it should go beyond skimming ...

When writing the script for A Pale View Of Hills, based on the debut novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, writer/director Kei Ishikawa ...