Kokou no Hito 113

As my goal gets ever closer, I feel emotions I didn't before.

Scan for Volume 12:
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Volume 13 just came out by the way. After this and that...

[Kokou no Hito 113 Translation by Kewl0210]
Cover:
Title: Kokou no Hito [Isolated/Aloof Man] 12
The Climber
Katou Buntarou
Author: Sakamoto Shinichi
Original Story: Nitta Jirou "Kokou no Hito"

Back Cover:
Silver Text: Buntarou saves the girl was in a disastrous situation named Katou Hana. That meeting shakes Buntarou's way of life in a big way----... Three years later, Buntarou takes on climbing untrodden by humans on the 8000 meter peak Nanga Parbat. In life-or-death territory, Buntarou looks back on his life, and ponders about Hana warmly taking him in, and...!?
Black Text: Where are you going-----?

Author Flap:
What is it

I am most afraid of in this world?


When people cannot understand each other----

Sakamoto Shinichi

Young Jump Flap:
[So Nononono got canceled... Kokou no Hito is in its last major arc right now so we don't need to worry about it. Thouh KnH does sell a little more and tends to get ranked better. Plus it's won awards and stuff.]

Inside Cover:
[And here's this...]

Page 1:
Title: Kokou no Hito
The Climber
12
Katou Buntarou
Original Story: Nitta Jirou "Kokou no Hito"
Author: Sakamoto Shinichi


Page 2:
Title: Katou Buntarou
Contents:
113th Climb Katou Buntarou
114th Climb The Oxygen-less Situation Called Loneliness
115th Climb Lost Youth
116th Climb Unapproved Advancement
117th Climb Prepared for Death Journey
118th Climb Question
119th Climb Adventurer
120th Climb Merkl Rinne (Stone Wall of Lamentation)
121st Climb Utmost Summit
122nd Climb Funeral
Special Compilation Yamada Noboru Memories of Challenge
Climbing Glossery
Bottom: This is a work of fiction. There are no connections to actual people, groups or events.

Page 3:
Title: 113th Climb Katou Buntarou
[It already says Japan Passport in English.]
[The rest of the stuff's in English, too.]

Page 4:
Description 1: Nepal, Himalayas,
Annapurna
Elevation 8091m
Description 2: Dhaulagiri
Elevation 8167m
Consecutive solo climbs in one season
[The Chile stamp thing is in some language I don't recognize.]
Description 3: Chile
Patagonia
Paine East-Face
1500m Untrodden Route
first climb accomplished during harsh weather

Page 5:
[The Nepal thing is in English.]
Description 4: Nepal Himalayas
Peak 29 Elevation 7871~Manaslu Elevation 8163
The first traversal in human history
Traveled on foot solo
[The passport stuff's in English. His name is written in kanji in the corner. They use a different romanization system that ignores the long o-sounds.]
Oldman: So this was the next mountain Mister Katou set his sights on..........?

Page 6-7:
Oldman: The name of this 8000 meter peak filled with the fear from it having devoured a countless number of us climbers,
Nanga Parbat the "Killer Mountain"----
Title: 113th Climb Katou Buntarou

Page 8:
Description: Pakistan
Nanga Palbat
Rupal Wall
Base camp
Elevation 3660 meter location
Guy: Mister Katou is climbing the center ridge...
It's a route that became famous in the 70's when the Mesner brothers climbed it, but
If he's able to climb it solo, it'll be the world's first!!
Guys: Ooh...
Oldman: ...But no matter how many of the world's difficult routes he's fell,
and though he may be the "Immortal Solo Climber", I doubt he will have an easy time on this...

Page 9:
Oldman: If you take 48 hours to climb... then 18 hours to will be needed to descend.
As for the other 30 hours, there may be time for one 2-hour long bivouac...
Nanga Parbat is stand-alone peak...
You are always followed by the dangers of violent wind, avalanches, falling ice and falling rocks.
In order to avoid that, without ever stopping,
you must run up the 4500m height wall in one burst!!
Under the condition of extremely low oxygen
while overusing your body to its utmost limit
you must keep going, earning elevation one step at a time.

Page 10:
Oldman: Even mentally, he will be forcing through
an exceedingly harsh struggle.

Page 11:
Mori: Hey,
let's go a little faster...

Page 12:
[His watch is cool.]

Page 13:
[A real man keeps his woman on a short leash.]

Page 14:
[Stop getting tired.]

Page 15:
Hana: ...S-Sorry.
After being in bed for two whole days, and having a man even have to buy things for me....
And on top that, I even want you to show me to the mountain-top shrine... I really have no common sense, do I......?
Mori: I don't really think so...
If there's a place you want to go,
going there is natural.
Come on, just a little farther.
Hana: R...
Right!!!

Page 16-17:
Guy 1: "Katou Buntarou"...
But I've never heard of a climber with a name like that...
Guy 2: How do you not know?
He's "Mori Buntarou"!!
Guy 1: Mori...
You mean that Solo Climb Mori!!?
Guy 2: But why......
Guy 1: Yeah, seems he got married recently and changed his last name to his wife's, seems he's devoted his body and heart...

Page 18:
Oldman: I heard this from a cook Mister Katou hired.
He said that his wedding ceremony is waiting for him for when he goes down the mountain...
Guy: Captain, please look outside!!
A cumulonimbus cloud is approaching from the Arabian Sea side...!!!
Oldman: It seems whether it's a happy wedding or not
will depend on his loss or victory against time.

Page 19:
Mori: Right now we're at elevation 7150 meters.
Usually this is the location where people do their second bivouac.
In anticipation of a sudden deterioration of weather, they try to do an attack to the peak in one go.

Page 20:
Katou: Don't worry, Hana-chan.
I'll be all right here, even alone.
Hana-chan.

Page 21:
Katou: I love you,
Hana-chan.
Because no matter how far we are apart,
we're tied together by a strong climbing rope.

Page 22:
Kokou no Hito
The Climber