The explorer, who once lived in a tent on North Vancouver's Grouse Mountain, was the first woman ever to reach the summit of Mount Robson Phyllis Munday died on April 11, 1990, and lived much of her 95 years in a sweet little two-bedroom house on Tempe Crescent in North Vancouver. She was born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1894 – her father managed Lipton’s tea estates – and the family moved to Vancouver when she was 13.