Beck Weathers
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Seaborn Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas who survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. His story was covered in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air, its film adaptation Into Thin Air:
Beck Weathers (left) in 2000
Yasuko Namba
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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 summit
Beck Weathers
…the night. The next day, another client on Hall's team, Stuart Hutchison, and two Sherpas arrived to check on the status of Weathers and fellow client Yasuko Namba. Both climbers were found to be alive, but in an extreme state of stupor. Believing the climbers to be near death and unable make it off the mountain…
The memorial chortens for Rob Hall, Doug Hansen, Andy Harris, and Yasuko Namba