One Hundred Mountains
On and around Japan's Hyakumeizan and other mountains
Friday, August 15, 2025
Mountaineering in Japan (2): "rocking to and fro"
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Continued: Walter Weston's guide to alpine activities in Japan during the 1930s. Flora : The flora of the Japanese Alpine regions is ric...
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Mountaineering in Japan (1) : "to a height of 40,000 feet"
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Walter Weston's guide to alpine activities in Japan during the 1930s. The islands of Japan represent the crest of a vast mountain chain ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
The Fall of Language from 3,463 metres
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A perspective on Mizumura Minae’s provocative yet productive polemic. The Jungfraujoch lies almost three and a half kilometres above sea lev...
Monday, July 7, 2025
Reappraising the Abraham brothers (2)
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Continued : they took mountain photography to a new level - but was it Art? Their mentor's death did little to deter the Abraham brother...
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Reappraising the Abraham brothers (1)
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They took mountain photography to another level – but was it Art? Back in March, I dropped into Jimbōchō, Tokyo’s used book district, on th...
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
Tales of past and present (7)
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Concluded : a talk about foreign explorers of Japan's mountains, then and now. So what is going on now? A big difference today is the in...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Images and ink (55)
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Image : Frontispiece from Upon that Mountain (1943) by Eric Shipton. Ink : Eric Shipton's thoughts on "Large Expeditions" par...
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