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Yasuko Namba
Born
Yasuko Tanaka
(1949-02-07)February 7, 1949
Ōta City, Tokyo, Japan
Died
May 11, 1996 (aged 47)
Mount Everest, Nepal
Cause of death
Hypothermia
Resting place
Japan
Education
Waseda University, School of Humanities and Social sciences
Known for
Oldest woman to complete the Seven Summits up to 1996
Oldest woman to climb Mount Everest up to
1996 Mount Everest disaster
Spouse
Kenichi Namba
Yasuko Namba (難波 康子, Nanba Yasuko, February 7, 1949 – May 11, 1996[1]) was the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei[2]) to climb the Seven Summits.[3] Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world. She first summited Kilimanjaro on New Year's Day in 1982, and summited Aconcagua exactly two years later. She reached the summit of Denali on July 1, 1985, and the summit of Mount Elbrus on August 1, 1992. After summiting Vinson Massif on December 29, 1993, and Carstensz Pyramid on November 12, 1994, Namba's final summit to reach was Mount Everest. She signed on with Rob Hall's guiding company, Adventure Consultants, and reached the summit in May 1996, but died during her descent in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
^Krakauer, Jon (1997). Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. New York: Villard. ISBN 0-679-45752-6.
^http://www.everesthistory.com/tabei.htm
^Salked, Audrey (May 2, 1996). "Report from Base Camp". PBS. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
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