Thursday, August 28, 2025

Mountaineering in Japan (4): "beyond the power of human legs to climb"

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Continued: Walter Weston's guide to alpine activities in Japan during the 1930s. THE SOUTHERN JAPANESE ALPS: Of the Southern Japanese Al...
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Friday, August 15, 2025

Mountaineering in Japan (3): "the Zermatt of Japan"

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Continued: Walter Weston's guide to alpine activities in Japan during the 1930s. THE NORTHERN JAPANESE ALPS: This group may best be trea...

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...
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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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