Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (died 1996)

Yasuko Namba

Japanese mountain climber (1949–1996)

Yasuko Namba was the second Japanese woman to climb the Seven Summits. Namba worked as a businesswoman for FedEx 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…