1. Phanthog is known for being the first woman to summit Mount Everest via its North Face route, the first Chinese woman to summit Everest, and the second woman to reach the summit, after Junko Tabei.
11 Facts About Phanthog
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Phanthog was born in 1939 into a serf family in rural Tibet.
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Phanthog returned to Everest in 2008 at the age of 70 by hiking to Everest Base Camp to celebrate the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Phanthog was one of eight former athletes chosen that year to carry the Olympic flag into the Olympics opening ceremony.
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Phanthog died on March 31,2014, at the age of 75 due to complications related to diabetes.
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Alongside eight other members of a Chinese-Tibetan expedition, Phanthog summited Mount Everest on May 27,1975.
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Phanthog became the second woman to successfully climb Everest, reaching the summit only 11 days after Junko Tabei's ascent via the southeast ridge route, and the first woman to climb it from the Tibetan side.
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The nine summiters were part of an 18-person "victory team," of which Phanthog was deputy leader, that had set out from Everest Base Camp 10 days prior.
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Phanthog lost three of her toes to frostbite as a result of the climb.
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Phanthog was married to Deng Jiashan, the political commissar of the Chinese national mountaineering team and later a middle school headmaster in Wuxi.
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Phanthog's husband accompanied her on the 1975 Everest expedition, although he did not reach the summit.