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The Summit of the Gods / 神々の山嶺 #3
Gipfel der Götter Bd. 3
Zum zweiten Mal ist der Fotograf Fukamachi in Katmandu, vorgeblich wegen der geheimnisvollen Kamera, die am Everest gefunden wurde. Hier in der Hauptstadt Nepals hält sich auch der legendäre Bergsteiger Habu Yoshi auf, der mit dieser Entdeckung in enger Verbindung zu stehen scheint.
Aber geht es nur um die Kamera? Ist es nicht vielmehr die Faszination, die von dem wortkargen, leidenschaftlichen Alpinisten Habu ausgeht und der Fukamachi längst erlegen ist?
Als dann auch noch die schöne junge Ryoko den beiden Männern nachreist, wird es wirklich kompliziert...
Aber geht es nur um die Kamera? Ist es nicht vielmehr die Faszination, die von dem wortkargen, leidenschaftlichen Alpinisten Habu ausgeht und der Fukamachi längst erlegen ist?
Als dann auch noch die schöne junge Ryoko den beiden Männern nachreist, wird es wirklich kompliziert...
336 pages, Paperback
First published May 17, 2002
About the author
Jirō Taniguchi
208 books632 followersName (in native language): 谷口 ジロー
Zodiac: Leo
He began to work as assistant of the late mangaka Kyota Ishikawa.
He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic.
From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as City Without Defense, The Wind of the West is White and Lindo 3.
From 1984 to 1991, Tanigushi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai.
In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which Aruku Hito (歩くひと), Chichi no koyomi (The Almanac of My Father), and Keyaki no ki.
In 2001, he created the Icare (Icaro) series on texts by Mœbius.
Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (1998) for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai, the Shogakukan prize with Inu wo Kau, and in 2003, the Alph'Art of the best scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (France) for Harukana Machi-E.
His work has been translated in many languages.
Far from the violent storylines often associated with the manga, Taniguchi has developed a very personal style, more adult. Along with other writers, like Tsukasa Hōjō, his comics focus more on the Japanese society and culture, with a subtle analysis of its customs and habits.
Zodiac: Leo
He began to work as assistant of the late mangaka Kyota Ishikawa.
He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic.
From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as City Without Defense, The Wind of the West is White and Lindo 3.
From 1984 to 1991, Tanigushi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai.
In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which Aruku Hito (歩くひと), Chichi no koyomi (The Almanac of My Father), and Keyaki no ki.
In 2001, he created the Icare (Icaro) series on texts by Mœbius.
Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (1998) for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai, the Shogakukan prize with Inu wo Kau, and in 2003, the Alph'Art of the best scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (France) for Harukana Machi-E.
His work has been translated in many languages.
Far from the violent storylines often associated with the manga, Taniguchi has developed a very personal style, more adult. Along with other writers, like Tsukasa Hōjō, his comics focus more on the Japanese society and culture, with a subtle analysis of its customs and habits.
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August 3, 2021
This is the final volume of Taniguchi's epic quintet about climbing Everest - solo, north face, in winter. Yeah, epic is probably an understatement. The artwork here - and in the other four volumes - is truly marvelous!
July 28, 2017
During the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine both disappeared on the North-East ridge during their attempt to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain.
Mallory's ultimate fate was unknown for 75 years, until his body was discovered on 1 May 1999 by an expedition that had set out to search for the climbers' remains.
Name tags on the body's clothing bore the name of "G. Leigh Mallory".
The body was well preserved, due to the mountain's climate. A brass altimeter, stag-handled lambsfoot pocket knife with leather slip-case and an unbroken pair of snow-goggles were recovered from Mallory's corpse. The team could not, however, locate the camera that the two climbers took to document their final summit attempt.
Experts from Kodak have said that if a camera is ever found, there is some chance that its film could be developed to produce printable images.
The 5 part manga series "The summit of the Gods", is about this camera.
It follows Makoto Fukamachi, a photographer who finds a camera supposedly belonging to Mallory, and goes on a mountain-climbing adventure along with his friend Habu Joujii.
This series was exhilarating, adventurous, suspenseful. An absolutely wonderful mountaineering epic.
I was engrossed from start to finish, and I didn't want it to end.
The art was also marvelous. Many readers don't like Manga, because they associate it with big eyes and big mouths. But this wasn't like that at all. The art couldn't be more realistic. It felt like the most breathtaking, thrilling mountaineering movie I've ever seen.
I can't recommend it highly enough.
10/10
June 18, 2025
Fabuła odwaliła taki twist, że opadła mi szczęka. Dalej dużo gór, ale dochodzi zupełnie inna, znacznie bardziej dynamiczna opowieść.
May 16, 2022
Like its predecessors, Volume 3 of The Summit of the Gods also suffers from pacing issues with the same thing being repeated multiple times over the course of the volume. However, they are significantly less than the previous volumes.
There are moments that shine and show that this manga has indeed a potential to achieve greatness.
There are moments that shine and show that this manga has indeed a potential to achieve greatness.
May 7, 2025
Der Bergsteiger-Thriller nimmt weiter Fahrt auf! Diesmal verlegt sich die Handlung zurück nach Kathmandu und Protagonist Fukamachi kann endlich herausfinden, was der eigentliche Hauptcharakter der Geschichte, der abgebrühte Bergsteiger Habu Yoshi, wirklich vor hat, um sich endgültig einen Platz auf dem Bergsport-Olymp zu sichern: die Solo-Erstbesteigung der Nordwand des Mount Everest im Winter. Um Zeuge dieses Ereignisses zu werden heftet sich Fukamachi an Habu‘s Fersen und versucht, seine Tat aufzeichnen zu können. Neben der stark anziehenden Story gibt es in diesem Band auch Einblicke in die Kultur von Nepal und das Leben der Sherpas, zu denen die besten Alpinst*innen der Welt gehören.
August 9, 2025
"Se avessi avuto paura di cadere, avrei già smesso..." (p. 241)
March 15, 2026
Yet another exceptional book in this series, but this one took some silly and unnecessary turns for drama's sake and I couldn't help but laugh and shake my head. For a little while mid-book, this serious and respectable series became an 80s action flick (for the record, I adore 80s action flicks), and I was tempted to dock it a star. But then it quickly righted itself and hand delivered me a platter of serious emotions instead, redeeming its proper 5 stars. Well, let's say 4.5 stars... that kidnapping subplot was a small but melodramatic blemish on an otherwise masterpiece. However, it did put all the characters into exactly the right position to deliver said platter. Fine.
April 9, 2021
I am pretty annoyed that Habu tried to hide his secret wife and kids from Ryoko. Fucking coward.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 30, 2021
A little less active mountaineering and more personal backstory with some somewhat superfluous kidnapping/car chases thrown in.
September 7, 2024
Anche questo molto bello, ma inizio a chiedermi come diavolo farà il film anime a durare un'ora e mezza...
January 3, 2023
don't meet your heroes and don't read the books of movies you really liked
March 5, 2015
Chi un giorno insegnera’ agli uomini a volare avra’ spostato tutte le pietre di confine; tutte le pietre di confine stesse voleranno in aria per lui ed egli ribattezzera’ la terra chiamandola ‘la leggera’. (Dello spirito di gravita’, 2, Cosi’ parlo’ Zarathustra, Nietzsche)
Prima o poi cadro’... ma fino a quel giorno continuero’ a scalare. (241)
Habu si apprestava a entrare nella terra degli Dei…(305)
Perche’ un uomo … decide di scalare una montagna? (322)
«Camminare per me significa entrare nella natura. Ed è per questo che cammino lentamente, non corro quasi mai. La Natura per me non è un campo da ginnastica. Io vado per vedere, per sentire, con tutti i miei sensi. Così il mio spirito entra negli alberi, nel prato, nei fiori. Le alte montagne sono per me un sentimento».
Reinhold Messner
Prima o poi cadro’... ma fino a quel giorno continuero’ a scalare. (241)
Habu si apprestava a entrare nella terra degli Dei…(305)
Perche’ un uomo … decide di scalare una montagna? (322)
«Camminare per me significa entrare nella natura. Ed è per questo che cammino lentamente, non corro quasi mai. La Natura per me non è un campo da ginnastica. Io vado per vedere, per sentire, con tutti i miei sensi. Così il mio spirito entra negli alberi, nel prato, nei fiori. Le alte montagne sono per me un sentimento».
Reinhold Messner
June 17, 2022
Les intrigues de ce troisième tome m'ont moins convaincue, les états d'âme de Fukamachi m'ont un peu déçue (marcher dans les pas d'un HommeFort pour se rassurer sur sa propre valeur parce que sa copine l'a tej, moui) et m'intéressent moins que la question de départ : quid de cet appareil photo ? Ce volume m'a donné une impression de remplissage, mais j'attends de voir la suite.
December 15, 2010
J'ai un peu moins aimé ce tome, peut-être une transition vers la fin ?
Un peu trop de rebondissement tirés par les cheveux à mon goût.
Un peu trop de rebondissement tirés par les cheveux à mon goût.
February 17, 2019
The story suffers as it veers away from mountaineering into a crime thriller subplot with kidnapping and car chases. The next volumes promise a return to the highest altitudes.
September 24, 2022
The love story felt more like a filler episode than plot relevant to me. However that's me always getting annoyed at sudden love stories pointing away from the main plot for some time.
August 28, 2017
Tercer volumen de la Cumbre de los Dioses, un tomo que nos lleva a la mitad de la trama y nos da un tono distinto al relato.
Sí, se nos sigue contando la historia de la obsesión hacia el personaje de Habu, y cómo el fotógrafo investiga sobre su paradero, pero también se nos narra la historia de la ex novia del mismo Habu, una historia más personal y que acaba explotando con el secuestro de la misma (que nos da cierta información geopolítica sobre la zona).
Me gusta que la trama de fondo siga siendo la del propio Habu junto con la posible coronación de Mallory; y me gusta que se deje un momento de lado la montaña para centrarse en otras cosas, ya sean personales o políticas.
Y encima sabemos ya qué ha estado haciendo el personaje misterioso que es Habu durante todos éstos años y cuáles son sus planes a futuro, lo que nos marca por dónde irá la obra en los próximos dos tomos.
Estupendo tercer tomo, quizás no me parece tan excepcional como los dos primeros, pero aun así sigue dando sopas con hondas a muchas otras obras.
Sí, se nos sigue contando la historia de la obsesión hacia el personaje de Habu, y cómo el fotógrafo investiga sobre su paradero, pero también se nos narra la historia de la ex novia del mismo Habu, una historia más personal y que acaba explotando con el secuestro de la misma (que nos da cierta información geopolítica sobre la zona).
Me gusta que la trama de fondo siga siendo la del propio Habu junto con la posible coronación de Mallory; y me gusta que se deje un momento de lado la montaña para centrarse en otras cosas, ya sean personales o políticas.
Y encima sabemos ya qué ha estado haciendo el personaje misterioso que es Habu durante todos éstos años y cuáles son sus planes a futuro, lo que nos marca por dónde irá la obra en los próximos dos tomos.
Estupendo tercer tomo, quizás no me parece tan excepcional como los dos primeros, pero aun así sigue dando sopas con hondas a muchas otras obras.
April 9, 2022
Sentiment de solitude
Ce troisième tome est tout aussi magistral que les premiers.
Cette plongée dans la solitude de la montagne prend un tournant à la façon d’un film d’action. Le rythme qui s’installait lentement devient frénétique, tant physiquement que mentalement. Les différents personnages se dévoilent enfin, le mystérieux Habu livre certains de ses secrets et la confrontation finale entre l’homme et la montagne est imminente.
La poésie du trait de Tanigushi est en parfaite harmonie de la beauté du récit de Yumemakura. Impossible de lâcher le livre qui vous happe l’âme, vous entraine sur les neiges éternelles dans un parallèles entre enquête historique et plongée psychologique d’un grimpeur.
Un chef d’œuvre.
Ce troisième tome est tout aussi magistral que les premiers.
Cette plongée dans la solitude de la montagne prend un tournant à la façon d’un film d’action. Le rythme qui s’installait lentement devient frénétique, tant physiquement que mentalement. Les différents personnages se dévoilent enfin, le mystérieux Habu livre certains de ses secrets et la confrontation finale entre l’homme et la montagne est imminente.
La poésie du trait de Tanigushi est en parfaite harmonie de la beauté du récit de Yumemakura. Impossible de lâcher le livre qui vous happe l’âme, vous entraine sur les neiges éternelles dans un parallèles entre enquête historique et plongée psychologique d’un grimpeur.
Un chef d’œuvre.
March 9, 2026
Il serpente velenoso
Forse l'episodio più debole finora della pentalogia di Taniguchi - dedicata alle vicende "di cuore" di Habu Joji, la narrazione prende una china "noir" con un rapimento poco credibile e parecchio artificioso (l'inseguimento e l'impresa di Habu suonano davvero troppo romanzati).
Non a caso, l'alpinismo e le montagne occupano poco spazio (se non per un breve resoconto, non necessario, della vicenda di Mallory) in un volume in cui le vicende di "cuore" di Habu rischiano davvero di smontare l'epicità e la potenza espressiva dell'opera.
Speriamo che, una volta risolte le questioni di donne, si torni a narrare di montagne ed imprese alpinistiche.
Forse l'episodio più debole finora della pentalogia di Taniguchi - dedicata alle vicende "di cuore" di Habu Joji, la narrazione prende una china "noir" con un rapimento poco credibile e parecchio artificioso (l'inseguimento e l'impresa di Habu suonano davvero troppo romanzati).
Non a caso, l'alpinismo e le montagne occupano poco spazio (se non per un breve resoconto, non necessario, della vicenda di Mallory) in un volume in cui le vicende di "cuore" di Habu rischiano davvero di smontare l'epicità e la potenza espressiva dell'opera.
Speriamo che, una volta risolte le questioni di donne, si torni a narrare di montagne ed imprese alpinistiche.
February 24, 2022
Recensione completa -> https://thebooksblender.altervista.or...
December 13, 2017
After the amazing second volume, I'll go with three stars for part 3. We have Fukimachi finally confronting Habu in Nepal and discovering his plans to attempt a solo winter climb of the Everest.
August 29, 2020
Pas encore le coeur de la grimpe façon Habu Jôji et Fukamachi n'est décidément pas un personnage qui m'intéresse, mais on découvre plus le Népal et la fameuse expédition de 1924.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 16, 2021
Digne suite des 2 premiers tomes. Magnifiques dessins, superbe histoire. Direction le t.4 toujours + haut. 🏔
October 29, 2022
Après un tome 2 « transition », ce tome 3 est une très bonne surprise. Il est très riche en événements et l’histoire avance à grands pas !
March 3, 2023
La beauté des paysages et l'intrigue sont excellentes. J'apprécie cette série et j'ai hâte de lire la prochaine. C'est aussi bon pour mon français !
December 3, 2023
Excellent comme toute cette série
February 11, 2025
3,5 stars
May 18, 2026
Story: 3.5/5
Art: 4.5/5
Overall: 3.5/5
Art: 4.5/5
Overall: 3.5/5
August 17, 2017
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