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summit of the gods
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures with tags anime, Baku Yumemakura, Everest, films, George Mallory, Jirô Taniguchi, Kodak, manga, Sandy Irvine, the summit of the gods on November 17, 2021 by xi'an神々の山嶺 [the summit of the gods]
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures with tags alpine climbing, Angoulême, Baku Yumemakura, 神々の山嶺, Everest, George Mallory, Japan, Jiro Taniguchi, manga, mountaineering, solo climbing, the summit of the gods on February 19, 2017 by xi'an
The summit of the gods is a five volume manga created by Jiro Taniguchi, who just passed away. While I do not find the mountaineering part of the story realistic [as in the above stripe], with feats and strength that seem beyond even the top himalayists like Reinhold Messner, Pierre Beghin, Abele Blanc, or Ueli Steck (to name a few), I keep re-reading the series for the unique style of the drawing, the story (despite the above), and the atmosphere of solo climbing in the 1970’s or 1980’s, especially as a testimony to Japanese climbers, as well as the perfect rendition of the call of the mountains… Reading Taniguchi’s obituaries over the weekend, I realised he was much more popular in France, where he won a prize for his drawing at the BD Festival in Angoulême in 2005, than in Japan.
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