Junko Tabei, Pan Duo and Intersectional Approaches to Mountaineering�
Julie Rak
University of Alberta
Everest 2019�(south side, Nepal)
Everest in the media
The Onion (satire)
Everest (north side, Tibet)
Everest IMAX (2015)
Jon Krakauer(played by Michael Kelly) leads the pack, Everest (2015)
K2, 2010 Korean Team
Gau Ming Ho (Makalu Gau)
In Taiwan
With David Brashears
Yasuko Namba
Namba on the Everest summit, 1996
Naoko Mori playing Namba dying in Everest (2015)
“Phantog”
Junko Tabei
Tabei, not exactly a “Japanese Housewife”
Junko Tabei, during a lecture
During the question period [at a lecture], one of the students from the middle of the room vigorously stood up, and said,
“All women mountaineers are not good looking. Is that true?” He had based his question on a quote from a popular Japanese novelist. “If you look at me, I said, “then you know that isn’t the case.”
That shut him up. So many questions and assumptions about body, looks, appearance—I was baffled at people’s inability to dig deeper in their inquiries about mountaineering, and especially about the female mountaineer. (35)
Pan Duo
Junko Tabei with students from Tohoku, on Mount Fuji, 2016
Thank you!
Special thanks