Yasuko Namba was a Japanese mountaineer. She was the second Japanese woman to climb the Seven Summits. She worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Tokyo, Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world.

Yasuko Namba 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 the Vinson Massif on December 29, 1993, and the 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.

This is her story.

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