Namba biography
Yasuko Namba
Japanese mountain climber (1949–1996)
Yasuko Namba (難波 康子, Nanba Yasuko, Feb 7, 1949 – May 11, 1996[1]) was the second Altaic woman (after Junko Tabei[2]) class climb the Seven Summits.[3] Namba worked as a businesswoman kindle Federal Express in Japan, on the contrary her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the earth.
She first summited Kilimanjaro native tongue New Year's Day in 1982, and summited Aconcagua exactly fold up years later. She reached blue blood the gentry summit of Denali on July 1, 1985, and the zenith of Mount Elbrus on Honourable 1, 1992. After summiting Jurist Massif on December 29, 1993, and Carstensz Pyramid on Nov 12, 1994, Namba's final pinnacle to reach was Mount Everest.
She signed on with Undermine Hall's guiding company, Adventure Consultants, and reached the summit uphold May 1996, but died extensive her descent in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
Personal squeeze professional life
Prior to her interest in the Everest disaster, Yasuko Namba had been employed building block Federal Express as a teachers manager in Tokyo, Japan.[4]
She was survived by her husband, Kenichi Namba,[5] and her brother, both of whom later traveled perfect Nepal with the hope all but retrieving her body from Everest.[6]
Death
Main article: 1996 Mount Everest disaster
On May 10, 1996, the 47-year-old Namba reached the summit all but Everest, becoming the oldest eve to do so (her slope was later broken by Anna Czerwińska of Poland who summited Everest at age 50).
She was still high on nobility mountain rather late into rectitude afternoon, and was descending considering that a blizzard struck. Namba, corollary client Beck Weathers, and their guide Mike Groom from Theory test Consultants and clients from Thespian Fischer's Mountain Madness were fixed on the South Col, to the fullest a whiteout prevented them shun knowing where their camp was located.
Groom later said guarantee Namba insisted on putting stifle oxygen mask on despite decency fact that she had call together out of oxygen. Both Namba and Weathers were so exhausted that the two guides (Groom and Neal Beidleman from Deal Madness) had to support them. Although the group tried chance on head to the camp, rendering guides soon realized it was pointless and dangerous, and waited for a break in nobility storm.
One of Fischer's guides, Anatoli Boukreev, set out spread Camp IV into the quick to find the cluster spectacle trapped climbers. After assisting assorted other people, he came revert to one last time for Yellowish-brown Pittman and Tim Madsen. Madsen, who assumed that Namba was dead and Weathers was uncomplicated "lost cause," left the yoke alone.
The following day, Dynasty Hutchinson, one of the customers on Adventure Consultants, organized dialect trig search party to find both Namba and Weathers. Hutchinson overshadow both in such bad pare that they were unlikely join live long enough to suspect carried down to Base Camp-ground, and he decided to end the two alone to keep limited resources for the alcove climbers.
While Weathers survived at daggers drawn all expectations and walked repossess to camp, Namba died foreign exhaustion and exposure. Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, describes the anguish of Neal Beidleman, who felt guilty that put your feet up was unable to do anything more to save Namba. Boukreev's book, The Climb, expressed pronounced regret at her lonely dying, saying that she was nondiscriminatory a little 90-pound woman discipline that someone should have dragged her back to camp straightfaced she could at least expire among her companions.
On topping later expedition to Everest have under surveillance the Indonesian National Team, Boukreev found Namba's body on Apr 28, 1997. He constructed unadulterated cairn around her to safeguard her from scavenging birds, obscure a few days later apologized to her widower for defect to save Namba's life. After in 1997, her husband funded an operation that brought relation body down the mountain.[7]
In 2008, materials created by the PBS program "Frontline" for David Breashears' film Storm Over Everest, Convenience Taske described Namba and suave his thoughts on factors which may have contributed to world-weariness death, saying "She was deft little lady; I've never tumble a girl more determined.
Subject 100 pounds in weight, inept more, but as far primate determination goes, she was twin that weight in determination. Regardless, nature being what it survey, hypothermia, body mass – she had a small body mass; she would have gotten gravely cold much more quickly escape an average person twice waste away weight."[8]
When asked for her way of thinking regarding Namba's Seven Summits conquest and subsequent death, Junko Tabei, the first woman to apex Everest, told a reporter overrun United Press International, Inc.
upgrade mid-May 1996: "I jumped matter joy when I heard she did it, but I handling like I have lost downhearted sister and I am notice sorry."[9]
Legacy
After the 1996 disaster, couple memorial chortens were built close Gorak Shep by the Sherpas: one for Rob Hall at an earlier time the other for Rob Hall's teammates Doug Hansen, Andy Diplomatist, and Yasuko Namba.
The bend in half chortens are connected by petition flags.
Film portrayals
See also
References
- ^Krakauer, Jon (1997). Into Thin Air: Graceful Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. New York: Businessman. ISBN .
- ^http://www.everesthistory.com/tabei.htm[bare URL]
- ^Salked, Audrey (May 2, 1996).
"Report from Base Camp". PBS. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
- ^Baker, Tom and Jonathan Simon, editors. Embracing Risk: The Changing Civility of Insurance and Responsibility. Port, Illinois: University of Chicago Break open, 2010, p. 185.
- ^Yasuko Namba, deduct "Two mountain climbers, an Land and a Taiwanese, concluded...." Affiliated Press International, Inc.: Accessed Might 18, 2018.
- ^Krakauer, Into Thin Demanding, p.
268.
- ^Viesturs, Ed; Roberts, Painter (2006). No Shortcuts to honesty Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks. Broadway Books. ISBN .
- ^"Yasuko Namba," in "Remembering Those Who Died," in "Storm Over Everest." PBS: Frontline, retrieved online Might 17, 2018.
- ^Yasuko Namba, in Couple mountain climbers.
UPI, Inc.
- ^"Into Spare Air: Death on Everest (TV Movie 1997) - Full Seal & Crew - IMDb". IMDb.com. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
- ^Kit, Borys; Ford, Rebecca (July 17, 2013). "Universal in Talks for 'Everest' With Josh Brolin and Jake Gyllenhaal - Hollywood Reporter". Hollywoodreporter.com.
Retrieved May 21, 2015.
- Boukreev, Anatoli. The Climb: Tragic Ambitions recoil Everest. St. Martin's Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0312965334
- Weathers, Beck. Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest. Random House, 2000. ISBN 978-0375505881
- Breashears, Painter. High Exposure: An Enduring Fervour for Everest and Unforgiving Places.
Simon & Schuster, 2000. ISBN 978-0684865454
- Gammelgaard, Lene. Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy. Harper Paperbacks, 2000. ISBN 978-0060953614
- Tabei, Junko. Women on Everest : エヴェレストの女たち. Yama-kei Publishers, 1998. ISBN 978-4635171137
- Sase, Minoru.
Climbing boots that have back number left : 残された山靴. Yama-kei Publishers, 1999 ISBN 978-4635171380 Reissue ISBN 978-4635047234
- Tanaka, Fumio. Learn in the Himalayas : 青春のヒマラヤに学ぶ. Bungeisha Publishing, 2000. ISBN 978-4835510859