The Summit of the Gods

神々の山嶺

Kamigami no Itadaki

47 chapters

5 volumes

2000 – 2003

In 1924, climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set out on an ambitious expedition to be the first to scale Mount Everest but disappeared during the final stretch of their ascent, creating one of mountaineering's greatest mysteries—whether they managed to reach the summit. In 1993, in Kathmandu, Japanese photographer Makoto Fukamachi comes across an old camera in an antique store, which he thinks once belonged to Mallory. However, the camera is quickly snatched up by "Bikha Sanp," a large Japanese man whom Fukamachi suspects is actually Jouji Habu, a celebrated Japanese mountaineer who vanished from public view years earlier. Despite Fukamachi's interest, Bikha Sanp avoids engaging with him and departs with the camera. With no other leads, Fukamachi decides to delve into Habu's past to understand what could have lured the former climber to Nepal. To rewrite mountaineering history, Fukamachi embarks on an investigation that will take him to the world's highest peak—the summit of the gods.

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Status: Finished
Format: Manga
Chapters: 47
Volumes: 5

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Kamigami no Itadaki is based on the Baku Yumemakura novel of the same name. The manga series won the Excellence Prize in the manga division at the Japanese Ministry of Culture's Media Arts Festival in 2001 as well as the Best Art Award at the French Angouleme Festival in 2005. The original novel won the 11th Shibata Renzaburo Award in 1998. The series was published in English as The Summit of the Gods by Ponent Mon/Fanfare from September 30, 2009, to March 26, 2015. In 2014, the publisher's translation of the fourth volume was nominated for the Eisner Award in the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia category. A live-action film adaptation titled Everest: Kamigami no Itadaki was released in Japan on March 12, 2016. A French-language CG animation film based on the series premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on July 15, 2021, before its theatrical release in France on September 22, 2021.