Over 3,000 m

Over 3,000 m

 

[caption id="attachment_7167" align="alignnone" width="400"] (Photo AFP, Toshiki Shirose)[/caption]

 

Toshiki Shirose was an alpinist.

 

He went to over 3,000 meters many times.

 

He went to top of Okuhodaka mountain in Nihon Alps twice, Okuhodaka mountain is 3,190 meters.

 

This is an example.

 

Can you see the clouds in this photograph ?

 

The clouds are under us, in this photograph.

 

The clouds are always above us, there are 2,500 meters to 3,500 meters from us.

 

In the clouds, there are the rain smog and rainy, wet, cold as the winter.

 

When walk through out from the clouds, there are the sun, there are over 3,000 meters.

 

There are many mountain tops that are over 3,000 meters.

 

Alpinists can watch FUJI-SAN from Nihon Alps in over 3,000 meters.

 

There are Kern in this photograph.

 

This Kern is the caution for another, that tells ‘From here is danger’.

 

Someone built this Kern.

 

This photograph is Nihon Alps.

 

Nihon Alps was founded by Teacher from England, Walter Weston, 1896.

 

We celebrate Weston festival in Kamikouchi in Nihon Alps every year.

 

To go to over 3,000 meters, the alpinists uses the trains and the buses to near 1,500 meters to 2,000 meters.

 

Another 1,000 meters to 1,500 meters, the alpinists walks.

 

Alpinists have the alpinism.

 

Alpinists want to climb many mountain top, and want to climb the road that no one walked.

 

There are the free.

 

To go to over 3,000 meters, the alpinists must have one or two weeks.

 

This photograph is taken in the summer, July to August.

 

(Photo AFP, Toshiki Shirose, 1978)

 

(Text and Edited: R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 11 August 2013)