The Summit of the Gods

神々の山嶺

In Kathmandu, photojournalist Makoto Fukamachi comes across a battered camera that may have belonged to George Mallory, the climber who vanished near the top of Everest in 1924. Chasing the question of whether Mallory reached the summit decades before Hillary, Fukamachi traces the camera to Joji Habu, a reclusive Japanese mountaineer nicknamed the Venomous Snake. Habu's own obsession with Everest pulls Fukamachi into the harsh world of high-altitude climbing. Taniguchi adapts Baku Yumemakura's novel.