Yasuko Namba

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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.