Yasuko Namba

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yasuko Namba was famous in her native Japan for becoming only the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei) to reach all of the Seven Summits including Everest, where she died. Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world. She first summitted Kilimanjaro on New Year''s Day in 1982, and summitt ...