Junko Tabei

Became the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975, and later the first woman to complete the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.

Founded the Ladies Climbing Club in Japan in 1969 because existing mountaineering organizations largely excluded or marginalized women -- the organization that went on to organize her Everest expedition.

Six days before her summit push on Everest in 1975, an avalanche struck her team's camp, burying and knocking her unconscious; she continued the expedition after recovering.

She secured funding for the all-women 1975 Everest expedition despite sponsor skepticism -- some corporate sponsors reportedly suggested the team focus on childcare instead.

Growing up, by her own account, a 'frail girl with no talent for sport' in a rural childhood where family and cultural expectations largely ignored her interest in mountains, she pursued it anyway -- decades before Everest, and continued climbing, teaching, and raising a family into her late seventies.

Pursuing a lifelong passion against surrounding social expectation, decades before it became a defining achievement, and sustaining it across a lifetime, is the basis for the profile's persistence score. Persistence