First ascent of Manaslu (female)

First ascent of Manaslu (female)
Who
Mieko Mori, Naoko Nakaseko, Masako Uchida
What
First
Where
Nepal
When
04 May 1974

The first women to climb Manaslu (8,163 m; 26,781 ft) in the Himalayas are Mieko Mori, Naoko Nakaseko and Masako Uchida (all Japan), who reached the top on 4 May 1974.

Manaslu is the eighth-highest mountain in the world. The Japanese expedition in 1974 was the first in which any woman conquered a mountain over 8,000 m (26,246 ft).