The Summit of the Gods

神々の山嶺

Kamigami no Itadaki

In 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine embarked on a daring mission to become the first to conquer Mount Everest, only to vanish during the final leg of their climb, leaving behind one of mountaineering's greatest enigmas—whether they actually reached the summit. Kathmandu, 1993. Japanese photographer Makoto Fukamachi spots a vintage camera in an antique shop, one he believes may have belonged to Mallory. Yet the camera is taken by "Bikha Sanp," a burly Japanese man who Fukamachi suspects is actually Jouji Habu, a legendary Japanese mountaineer who disappeared from the scene years ago. Unfortunately for Fukamachi, Bikha Sanp refuses to engage with him and leaves, camera in hand. With the trail gone cold, Fukamachi has only one option left: to explore Habu's past and uncover what might have drawn the former climber to Nepal. For the sake of rewriting mountaineering history, Fukamachi begins his investigation, a journey that will lead him to the highest point on Earth—the summit of the gods.

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Background

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.

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