Athletes: Pan Duo
Womanica
Acast Creative Studios
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Pan Duo (1939-2014) was the first Chinese woman to summit Mount Everest and the second woman overall to summit the mountain after Junko Tabei in 1975.
For Further Reading:
- Climbing Magazine: The First Three Women to Climb Everest
- Chicago Tribune: HANDMAIDENS TO THE `MOTHER GODDESS OF THE WIND
- Google Books: Honouring High Places The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei
- The University of Alberta: Ascending marginalized stories to new heights
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| 0:00.0 | In 2020 in a small California mountain town five women disappeared. |
| 0:05.7 | I found out what happened to all of them except one a woman known as Dea whose estate is worth |
| 0:12.4 | millions of dollars. I'm Lucy Sheriff. Over the past |
| 0:16.4 | four years I've spoken with Dia's family and friends and I've discovered that |
| 0:21.2 | everyone has a different version of events. |
| 0:24.6 | Hear the story on Where's Deer. |
| 0:27.0 | Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:30.5 | or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Wamanica. |
| 0:43.2 | This month we're celebrating women who performed physical and mental feats |
| 0:46.3 | in sports. |
| 0:47.4 | They overcame societal barriers, personal struggles, |
| 0:50.1 | and fierce competition to pursue their dreams of glory. |
| 0:53.4 | We're talking about athletes. |
| 0:56.0 | Today we're talking about an accomplished mountaineer who became known in the Chinese |
| 0:59.6 | press as the tallest woman in the world. Let's talk about Pandwoe. |
| 1:05.0 | Pandwoe was born in 1939 in rural Tibet to a poor surf family. |
| 1:11.0 | When she was eight years old her father died exacerbating the |
| 1:15.7 | family's economic struggles. To help support the family, Pandewo was sent to |
| 1:20.5 | work. Pandewo endured back-breaking labor for hours each day, often carrying |
| 1:26.2 | more than 70 pounds of goods up and down the Himalayan roads on foot. |
| 1:30.9 | She later moved to Lassa, Tibet, where she worked on a farm and in a factory. |
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