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Mounting Modernization: Itakura Katsunobu, the Hokkaido University Alpine Club and Mountaineering in Pre-War Hokkaido

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Writing in 1919, shortly after his first solo winter ascent of Yarigatake (3180 meters), the then 24 year-old alpinist Itakura Katsunobu waxed poetic on the Japan Alps: At the seat of heavenwhere peaks and valleys come into viewI climb in a sea of whitenessto see inside myself.
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Title: Mounting Modernization: Itakura Katsunobu, the Hokkaido University Alpine Club and Mountaineering in Pre-War Hokkaido
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Writing in 1919, shortly after his first solo winter ascent of Yarigatake (3180 meters), the then 24 year-old alpinist Itakura Katsunobu waxed poetic on the Japan Alps: At the seat of heavenwhere peaks and valleys come into viewI climb in a sea of whitenessto see inside myself.

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