Climbing Japan's Matterhorn

Hut below Yarigatake 

  

Yarigatake summit cone

Flower at the village of Kamikochi 

 

Through the forest on the way to climb Yarigatake

 

Sunset over the mountain hut 

Beginning the climb
 

Snowfield

Yarigatake summit. Climbers can be seen on the route of the scramble

View from Yarigatake Sanso
 

Scrambling above Yarigatake Sanso

 

The final scramble to the summit
 

Yarigatake at Sunrise
 

Dawn in the Japanese Alps

The tale of the original conquest of the Japanese Alps, by a Derbyshire clergyman, no less, can be found in this book:

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