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Yasuko Namba (難波 康子, Nanba Yasuko, February 7, 1949 – May 11, 1996 [1]) was the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei [2]) to climb the Seven Summits. [3] Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world.
Kanchenjunga is the world's third-highest mountain; it tops out less than 100 feet (30 m) shorter than K2. The Seven Second Summits collection is considered to be a more difficult mountaineering challenge than the standard Seven Summits, even if the peaks are lower. [82]
He wrote a book about this process, Beyond Everest: Quest for the Seven Summits, in which he argued the veracity of the Carstensz-Version over the Bass List. [3] Born in Invermere, British Columbia, Morrow was the first person to summit all the seven peaks on the Messner List of Seven Summits while Richard Bass was the first to complete the ...
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker expressed his support for the Seven Mountains Mandate, a once-fringe philosophy that calls on evangelical Christians to reshape American life based ...
Wasfia Nazreen (Bengali: ওয়াসফিয়া নাজরীন) is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, environmentalist, [1] social worker and writer. [2]Nazreen is the first Bengali and Bangladeshi to scale K2, the world's second highest and most dangerous peak [3] [4] becoming one of the 40 women in history since 1954 to have successfully scaled K2.
Junko Tabei (Japanese: 田部井 淳子, Hepburn: Tabei Junko, née Ishibashi; 22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016) was a Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher.She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
Premlata Agrawal (born 1963) is the first Indian woman to scale the Seven Summits, the seven highest continental peaks of the world. [1] [2] She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013 and Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2017 for her achievements in the field of mountaineering. [3]