10 Facts About Yasuko Namba

Yasuko Namba was the second Japanese woman to climb the Seven Summits.

Yasuko Namba first summited Kilimanjaro on New Year's Day in 1982, and summited Aconcagua exactly two years later.

Yasuko Namba reached the summit of Denali on July 1,1985, and the summit of Mount Elbrus on August 1,1992.

Yasuko Namba 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.

Yasuko Namba was survived by her husband, Kenichi Namba, and her brother, both of whom later traveled to Nepal with the hope of retrieving her body from Everest.

On May 10,1996, the 47-year-old Yasuko Namba reached the summit of Everest, becoming the oldest woman to do so.

Yasuko Namba was still high on the mountain rather late into the afternoon, and was descending when a blizzard struck.

Groom later said that Yasuko Namba insisted on putting her oxygen mask on despite the fact that she had run out of oxygen.

Madsen, who assumed that Yasuko Namba was dead and Weathers was a "lost cause," left the two alone.

Yasuko Namba constructed a cairn around her to protect her from scavenging birds, and a few days later apologized to her widower for failing to save Namba's life.