Naomi Uemura (1941 to 1984, disappeared) was a Japanese adventurer known particularly for his solo accomplishments. He was the first person to reach the North Pole solo, the first to raft the Amazon River solo and the first to climb Denali solo. Before his thirtieth birthday he had solo-climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, had walked the length of Japan, and had summited during the first Japanese expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1970, then took part in the disastrous 1971 International Everest Expedition. He disappeared on 13 February 1984.
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