Most people find comfort in the crowd, but for Buntaro Mori, the only place he truly feels alive is where the air is too thin to scream. What starts as a spiteful challenge to scale the side of his high school becomes the catalyst for a life-consuming obsession that leaves the safety of the valley far behind. Mori is a ghost in his own life, a silent transfer student who finds the vertical world far more honest than the social games of the people around him. As he graduates from school walls to the lethal, ice-choked faces of the Alps and the Himalayas, he begins a solitary pilgrimage that borders on madness. This is a visceral, psychological masterwork that captures the suffocating isolation of a man who views the peak not as a trophy, but as a sanctuary from a world that never fit him. Every frozen ledge is a choice between a mundane existence and a glorious, solitary end. Mori strips away his humanity to become something as cold and unyielding as the rock he climbs, proving that the greatest heights are often reached only by those willing to lose everything.

Seinen, Mountaineering, Psychological Drama, Survival, Solo Climbing, Buntaro Mori, High Altitude, Shinichi Sakamoto, Sports Manga, Obsession