Kokou no Hito 39

What's the cost of going alone?

[Kokou no Hito 39 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 139:
Kurosawa: This mountain is even now continued to be called by the surveying number from when it was discovered. The world's most difficult peak, K2...
Title: 39th Climb Cost
Kurosawa: Even now in the 21st century, it has continued to refuse a human name. A "God of Mountains".

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Hey, Mori.
Why don't you go? To K2.
Mori: .........
I-I can't.

Page 141:
Kurosawa: Why?
You scared?
Mori: ....I don't have any money to go abroad.
Kurosawa: !!
Kurosawa: What? You're worried about something dumb like that?
Don't talk about money in a place like this.
SFX: Dosah
Kurosawa: Where do you think you are?
SFX: Pih
SFX: Saaaaaa

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Kurosawa: You're smack in the middle of Tokyo,
on the top floor of the highest class of mansion!!
政界や財界太いパイプを持っている資産家
Ninomiya Yuusuke's a wealthy man, well connected in the political and financial world.
If you're with him, whether it's a foreign mountain or whatever, you've got nothing to be worried about.
Just try going as an individual to K2 or something.
Do you have any idea how hard that'd be?

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Kurosawa: The price for entrance onto K2 is about 1,300,000 yen.
往復渡航費 資材の輸送梱包費
The cost for a round trip voyage from Japan to Islamabad is 200,000 yen. The cost for transporting materials would be 100,000 yen.
最奥の村アスコーレ 移動車両費 政府連絡官を雇わなきゃ
To get to the innermost town, Askole, the migration vehicle costs would be 70,000 yen... There, you'll obviously need to hire porter to help carry your things and also a government communication agency.
紛争地帯
Karakoram is a long time war zone. The communication agency will be mostly ex-servicemen.
物資や情報が不足した階級社会では融通をきかせる為に時にはコネや賄賂が物を言う事もあるだろう
And to allow for some flexibility in a hierarchal society with deficient materials and information, connections and bribery are powerful, too.
引き連れて 気の抜けない
Then you gotta go on a 7 day long caravan trip to the K2 base camp with those guys, not even communicating much, staying focused the whole time....

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単独峰で天候が不安定だ
Kurosawa: And even if you make it to base camp, at the lone peak of K2 the weather is unstable.
So there's also the possibility you run out of money waiting confined for days for the weather to improve...
When Ninomiya's team goes in, they'll push all the annoying parts onto other people.
And you'll only need to think about the mountain.
利用する物は利用しろ
Use what you can to your advantage.
That's the shortcut to grasping your dreams.
So,
you're okay with participating, right?

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Kurosawa: I'll call Ninomiya.
I've got copies of that picture so you can take it with you.
Mori: How much would it cost to climb K2 alone?
Kurosawa: Hm?
食糧費 装備
Yeah, uh, if you take into account provisions, equipment and insurance...
At best it'll cost 2,200,000...
Eh?
Mori: I'm going home.
Kurosawa: !!
H-Hang on a second.
H-Hey, you're not...!!?

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Mori: I'm
climbing alone.
W-Wait, Mori!
Have you gone nuts...!!?
SFX: Kah kah kah

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Girl: Sorry, I'm on my way to the store,
I think I'll be able to get the cash tomorrow, sooo...
SFX: Kah kah kah
Girl: Then tomorrow night at 7...
Okay, goodbyyye.
SFX: Don
Girl: That hurrrt!
Don't block the road, fatso!!
Fatso: Eh...
Girl: Aw, this is bad.
今月もう 前借りしまくってる
I'm already getting an advance for this month, what do I do?
SFX: Gah gah
Girl: !!

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Girl: Eh!?
Isn't that...
Seriously, he came out of here!?
This is a super-celebrity mansion...!!!
只今の残高
Screen: Current balance
*To continue with a transaction, press a [bubble] please
Mori: I've got no choice...
This is where I am from climbing mountains and buying gear and things every month..
K2, 2,200,000...
My salary is 130,000
The money I use is rent, food costs, mountains...

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Mori: Rent won't go away, so
if I halve my food expenses
まとめて働いてまとめて山に行くそうすれば交通費も浮く
and stop going to mountains every week, and instead I'll group work together and going to mountains together, and I save on travel expenses.
あと残業も増やして夜のバイトもするんだ。
Then I'll add overtime and get a part time job at night.
If I save 100,000 every month
I'll have saved up 2,200,000 within a year!!
SFX: Dokun (heartbeart)

Page 152:
SFX: PAAAAAAA
Girl: Hey, you wanna go eat?
Guy: Aw, how bout some meat? [heart]
Other Guy: I've got 5 guys together. We're going to the store.
People: Gyahahahahaha
Guy: You're cute miss, wanna hang out?
Girl: Eh, but...
Mori: ......Is it really
worth sacrificing everything?

Page 153:
Mori: For a mountain I've never even been to----
But I have to go.
I've already
seen it.

Page 154-155:
Mori: The 8000 meter
space colored sky---

Page 156:
SFX: Gaaaah
Girl: Mori-kun!!
Uwah, it really is you, Mori-kun.
Mori: ......
Girl: I missed you.
Yumi: It's me. Shirai Yumi.
Remember? I was in the climbing club with you!!