CLIMBER

Sophia Danenberg

United States

The first Black woman and first African American to reach the summit of Everest, on 19 May 2006.

Sophia Danenberg (born 1972 in Okinawa, Japan) is an American mountaineer of mixed heritage — a Japanese mother and a Black father. On 19 May 2006, aged 34, she became the first Black woman and first African American to reach the summit of Mount Everest, climbing with Pa Nuru Sherpa on an unguided expedition while enduring bronchitis and frostbite. A Harvard graduate in Environmental Sciences and Public Policy, she took up climbing while a Fulbright Fellow at Keio University in Tokyo. She has also climbed Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Ama Dablam, the Grand Teton and Rainier. Away from the mountains she is a senior engineer at Boeing and has served as a Washington State Park Commissioner since 2019.

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