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451: 1026: 1020: 355: 430:, John Taske described Namba and presented his thoughts on factors which may have contributed to her death, saying "She was a little lady; I've never met a girl more determined. About 100 pounds in weight, no more, but as far as determination goes, she was twice that weight in determination. However, nature being what it is, hypothermia, body mass – she had a small body mass; she would have gotten desperately cold much more quickly than an average person twice her weight." 25: 390:, while a whiteout prevented them from knowing where their camp was located. Groom later said that Namba insisted on putting her oxygen mask on despite the fact that she had run out of oxygen. Both Namba and Weathers were so weak that the two guides (Groom and Neal Beidleman from Mountain Madness) had to support them. Although the group tried to head to the camp, the guides soon realized it was pointless and dangerous, and waited for a break in the storm. 415:, expressed profound regret at her lonely death, saying that she was just a little 90-pound woman and that someone should have dragged her back to camp so she could at least die among her companions. On a later expedition to Everest with the Indonesian National Team, Boukreev found Namba's body on April 28, 1997. He constructed a 401:
and Tim Madsen. Madsen, who assumed that Namba was dead and Weathers was a "lost cause," left the two alone. The following day, Stuart Hutchinson, one of the clients on Adventure Consultants, organized a search party to find both Namba and Weathers. Hutchinson found both in such bad shape that they
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After the 1996 disaster, two memorial chortens were built near Gorak Shep by the Sherpas: one for Rob Hall and the other for Rob Hall's teammates Doug Hansen, Andy Harris, and Yasuko Namba. The two chortens are connected by prayer flags.
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of Poland who summited Everest at age 50). She was still high on the mountain rather late into the afternoon, and was descending when a blizzard struck. Namba, fellow client
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were unlikely to live long enough to be carried down to Base Camp, and he decided to leave the two alone to save limited resources for the other climbers.
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She 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.
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Prior to her involvement in the Everest disaster, Yasuko Namba had been employed by Federal Express as a personnel manager in Tokyo, Japan.
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While Weathers survived against all expectations and walked back to camp, Namba died from exhaustion and exposure. Jon Krakauer's book,
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On May 10, 1996, the 47-year-old Namba reached the summit of Everest, becoming the oldest woman to do so (her record was later broken by
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Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Knowledge (XXG) article at ]; see its history for attribution.
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When asked for her thoughts regarding Namba's Seven Summits achievement and subsequent death,
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In 2008, materials created by the PBS program "Frontline" for David Breashears' film
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
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Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility
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Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy
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Two mountain climbers, an American and a Taiwanese, concluded....
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Chortens for Rob Hall, Doug Hansen, Andy Harris and Yasuko Namba
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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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1996 Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition to Mount Everest
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on November 12, 1994, Namba's final summit to reach was
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exactly two years later. She reached the summit of
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Ōta City, Tokyo
Mount Everest
Hypothermia
Waseda University
Seven Summits
Mount Everest
1996 Mount Everest disaster
Junko Tabei
Seven Summits
Federal Express
mountaineering
Kilimanjaro
Aconcagua
Denali
Mount Elbrus
Vinson Massif
Carstensz Pyramid
Mount Everest
Rob Hall
Adventure Consultants

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