Kokou no Hito 135

Impurity in the land untrodden by man.

Scan of chapter 135:
http://www.apiljuce.com/Kokou_no_Hito_Ch135.zip

[Kokou no Hito 135 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Katou: The 60 degree snow wall
has a totally difference in elevation of 2000 meters, and will continue for 25 hours-------
Sign: Climb the number one mountain in the world.
Title: The ultimate climber!!
Kokou no Hito
Side: The K2 East-Face... The outset of that aspiration was... when he had nothing... The image of the challenge is what he's accumulated over time.

Page 2:
Katou: A monotonous climb continuing forever...
The burden of making the snow path will not be easy.
At the deeper parts the snow will be at stomach level...

Page 3:
Sign: [Whatever the hell I had before...]
Katou: If snow gets scraped off on those 60 degree areas,
I'll climb with my knees braced.
If the slope is low
I'll climb on all fours...
And if wind still gets to me
I'll gather snow until it dies down...

Page 4:
Katou: That ridge
and that overhanging serac
they're probably past the snow field.
As is the head wall.

Page 5:
Katou: I already
know it all...

Page 6-7:
Just like what I've been drawing in my head all this time,
it's the same K2 East-Face...!!!
Insert: Enshrined in his heart, the unparalleled ice wall of isolation...!!!
Circle: From Young Jump Comics "Kokou no Hito" the newest volume volume 12 is now on sale with rave reviews!!
Title: Kokou no Hito
135th Climb Pure Sport Aspiration
Lower Insert: To the pinnacle of "life"!! The new age climbing story!!

Page 8:
[Ropes and stuff...]

Page 9:
[Walk in pure.]

Page 10:
[Here we are.]

Page 11:
Katou: ...First is the climb to 7000 meters and the adaptation to the high elevation.
Deposit foodstuffs and descend until we can handle it...
After that, tackling the summit all at once in 60 hours.
The climbing style is making a snow path with a double axe.
There'll be no belay, but in consideration to the crevasse risk, we'll climb roped up together.
In the morning with the sun hitting it, the East-Face will be prone to avalanches,
so just as planned, we'll wait on the northeast ridge where the sun is obstructed until afternoon.
Once the snow surface gets tense, we'll start on it...

Page 12:
Takemura: Afternoon? No way...
Katou: Eh?
Takemura: ...The snow well may be unstable, but the valley we're climbing won't be along the paths of the avalanches.
The center ridge is safe.
Avalanches are an accessory of the K2 East-Face.
Far more important is the risk of changing weather.
If we wait around in a place like this, we'll get caught in bad weather in the middle of the climb.
Katou: But our plan at base camp...
Takemura: Yeah, but...

Page 13:
Takemura: If the sun is down, I won't get a good picture.
Sorry------
Katou: B-But Takemura...!!!
If a 7000m serac falls, won't we be hit directly...!?
Takemura: Who do you think it is who arranged this climb!!?
Who got everything from the climbing permit to getting the porter...
Katou: ......!!!

Page 14:
Takemura: The leader this time is me.
So please don't give me instructions!!!
Phone: Incoming - Adachi-sensei

Page 15:
Hana: Ah... Yes?
Hello... Adachi-sensei?
Adachi: Hana-kun?
Ah, do you have a PC where you are now?
I was just told by a seminar student,
it seems there's a website where you can see Katou-kun's climb!!
Hana: Eh?
I'll send you the address now.
Why don't you take a look, too?

Page 16:
Takemura: This video is being sent to Japan via a satellite phone signal.
It's up on my home page on the net.
It seems the viewer counter is already past 50,000.
This's an untrodden ice wall is an unexplored region never even aired on TV,
so that makes a lot of people have an interested, don't you think?

Page 17:
Adachi: But, isn't this good?
People all over the world
can see how amazing we are---...!!!

Page 18-19:
Insert Text: To the long yearned for K2 challenge is a crowding gallery...!!!!
Bottom: Kokou no Hito
135th Climb
End....
Next issue, grim prospects!?
What trials are awaiting them on the K2 East-Face climb...!?