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...attempt the summit each year but only about half make it. Ninety-two climbers have died, including Japanese explorer Naomi Uemura, who in 1984 became the first person to solo summit in winter. He disappeared on the way down, probably blown off...
...probably so hypothermic they couldn't hold on anymore." Okura chose the spot where his friends fell in 1989, and where Naomi Uemura, one of Japan's most famous adventurers, vanished during the first solo winter climb in February 1984, to install...
... ANCHORAGE - A Japanese mountaineer is trying to make the first solo winter ascent by someone from his country since Naomi Uemura's historic but fatal climb 14 years ago. Masatoshi Kuriaki, described as a prudent, meticulous climber with...
...sake - and because he has closed a chapter in the mountain's history. A countryman, the great solo adventurer Naomi Uemura, reached the top in February 1984, but vanished on the way down. That event threw Japan into mourning, said veteran...
...bodies still on the mountain, Yamada and Inoue share their icy tomb with one of Japan's most beloved adventurers, Naomi Uemura, whose 1984 death at age 44 is perhaps the most famous fatality in McKinley history. A national hero in Japan, Uemera...
...first balloonist to fly over the Himalayas in October 2000, the newspaper reported. For that effort, he was given the Naomi Uemura Adventure Prize, named for the climber who disappeared on Mount McKinley in 1984. Kanda planned his latest adventure...
...Tsuchiya is eager to lay eyes on the very mountain that claimed the life of storied Japanese adventurer and national hero Naomi Uemura in 1984 during a winter solo ascent. Also on his Alaska list are a dog-mushing adventure through the woods and a...