Japan’s second highest peak, immediately to the west, once-volcanic Yatsugatake in the far distant east, and northwest of us a conjoined pair ofHyakumeizanclubmembers: Kaikomagadake and Senjodake - none of them under 3,000 meters. If we were lucky and the sky was clear, we might even...
As I mentioned in December, I’m under contract to climb and write a book about theNihon Hyakumeizan(100 Famous Mountains of Japan)as described in Kyūya Fukada’s 1964 mountaineering book by the same name. Fukada’s book has inspired generations of Japanese mountaineers(and many from other ...