Chapter 7 Chapter 5 The Proud Man

Hanyu Joji became a legendary mountaineer and left his footprints in Japanese mountaineering history in 1970—the 45th year of the Showa era. At that time, Hanyu was twenty-six years old. "The opportunity is our mountaineering expedition to the Himalayas." Koichiro Ito said. That year, Qingfeng Mountaineering would go on an expedition to the Himalayas. The goal is the main peak of Annapurna. The altitude is 8,091 meters.The first 8,000-meter peak that humans stepped on. On June 3, 1950, Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal of the French team were the first to stand on her summit.

Annapurna - in Sanskrit, means "Goddess of Abundance". For Qingfeng Mountaineering Club, this is the first Himalaya mountain and the first 8,000-meter peak. However, Hanyu was unable to join that expedition. "Because that guy has no money." Ito said. Expeditions abroad - sounds grand on the surface, but in fact has no major sponsors. I borrowed down jackets, crampons, and tents from mountaineering equipment manufacturers, but the mountaineering equipment manufacturers would not provide cash.Instant food manufacturers provide free instant noodles, dried vegetables, etc., but do not provide cash.

Large newspapers are willing to be sponsors, but the amount of funding is one-fifth of the total cost. If they fail to reach the top, the amount of funding will be reduced to half of the predetermined amount. Misappropriating funds from the operation of the mountaineering club as expedition funds, even though it is not enough.As a result, most of the costs were covered by the expedition members themselves. Each member of the expedition must contribute more than one million yen. In other words, only those who can raise that amount of money can participate in the expedition. The expedition lasted about three and a half months—including pre-trip preparation, it took about four months.While acclimatizing to the altitude, I moved collectively for a month. After arriving at the base camp, I started climbing from there.During that period, many porters were employed because of the large amount of grain and mountaineering supplies to be carried.A total of nearly one hundred people moved in a mighty manner.That fee is not a small sum either.

People who can't raise money can't go.Even if you can raise money, if you can't take four months' leave, you can't participate in the expedition. For Hanyu, who changes jobs frequently, asking for leave is no problem.However, he has no money. In 1970 - the amount of one million was equivalent to nearly half a year's income. Hanyu couldn't raise that money. He borrowed money from everyone he knew, pleaded everywhere for potential personal sponsors at mountaineering shops and companies around town, but couldn't get even a third of what he needed. When he had to give up on this overseas expedition, Hanyu became surly.

He drowned his sorrows with alcohol, and made trouble with the team members at the party of the mountaineering club. "Why can people with weaker physical strength and skills than me go, but I can't?" He also finds fault with Ito. "This expedition is meaningless if it doesn't succeed, isn't it? For our mountaineering association, this expedition absolutely must be successful—?" That being the case, instead of that guy going, it's better for me to go. Hanyu pointed out one person's name and made such a claim. What's nerve-wracking is that Hanyu didn't just lose his mind and keep talking, as he said, he believed it to be so.

The team members feel embarrassed. but-- Starting about ten days before the team set off, Hanyu suddenly became taciturn. He stopped drinking and began to silently help the team prepare for the trip. On the night of February 22nd when the team set off—— Hanyu asked Makio Inoue, who was also a member of the Qingfeng Mountaineering Club, to come out. Makio Inoue, like Hanyu, possessed superior rock climbing skills, but he also gave up the expedition because he couldn't raise money. He is the same age as Hanyu, but he joined the Qingfeng Mountaineering Club a year later than Hanyu. "To put it bluntly, it's money."

Hanyu vomited bitterness in the izakaya in front of Inoue. "Only those who have money or borrow money can climb the Himalayas." Inoue agrees. "We have bet our lives on mountaineering so far." Hanyu's daily life is just as he said.In a year, more than 200 days are spent in the mountains.No one can match this number of days in the mountaineering club. Inoue, who has been in the mountain for more days than other members, only has 120 days at most. "Why can people who enter the mountain for less than fifty days a year go there?" The self who bet everything on climbing the mountain stays, and the person who only shows up occasionally in his spare time at work, why can he go—?

Hanyu said what he had said many times so far. "You can't be famous. You have to be famous. And if you have a famous name, there are sponsors who are willing to pay. Simply put, to be famous is to do things that no one else is doing." At this time, Makoto Fukamachi also interviewed Makio Inoue, who had partnered with Hanyu. Gotta do what no one else is doing. Hanyu's expression after saying this... "Suddenly turned into a frighteningly serious expression—" Inoue said to Fukamachi. Thus, Inoue heard the name "Oni Rock" from Hanyu for the first time.

"Hey!" Hanyu glared at Inoue. His expression was not drunk. "Would you like to climb Ghost Rock with me?" "Ghost Rock?" "Ghost rock in winter. Be my rope buddy, let's climb together." "no kidding." Inoue immediately shook his head. Impossible. "Climbing Ghost Rock in winter is like committing suicide." Ghost Rock - short for "Ghost Wall", as it is called. Ichinokurazawa, the rock face of Nankankan in Tanigawadake, is this ghost rock. huge rock walls— Snow is everywhere in winter, forming nearly vertical ice walls.

From the route below Kurosawa to the round wall above, it is a long route of more than 1,000 meters.This rock wall is larger than the third rock wall of Takizawa that was climbed in Showa 42 (1967), and it is more difficult. The snow above can be said to be-falling almost without interruption.Especially for the route below Kurosawa, the geological structure will naturally attract avalanches that occur on the rock wall, which belongs to the area with frequent avalanches. In terms of climbing objects, it is too dangerous a place.With four of the six rounds in the magazine, he pressed the muzzle to his temple and pulled the trigger himself—more dangerous Russian roulette than usual.

Going to climb Ghost Rock in winter is as dangerous as playing this kind of gamble. So far, no one has seriously considered it as a climbing goal. There are several hanging rocks along the way, and even in summer, they must be hung in mid-air by artificial climbing. "I do not want." Inoue said it bluntly. "I don't want to die." However-- "Let's go." Hanyu said. "I will never give up on climbing the Himalayas. My pride won't let me do that." Hanyu played with his temper like a child. "You bastard!" Hanyu said. "Are you willing? Rich people go to climb the Himalayas, but we are left behind. Can you bear this kind of thing? Let's do something even worse than climbing the Himalayas Let them see! Inoue, do you have a way to silently listen to those guys bragging about climbing the Himalayas when they come back--?" Recalling the scene at that time, Inoue said to Fukamachi: "That guy can't get used to his pain. I just understand it now. It's the same when he is separated from his family, and it's the same if he can't go to the Himalayas. Even the Great Choras and Everest later, he absolutely Won't try to forget the pain-" Inoue added: "That guy always remembers the pain. He seems to think it's a mistake to forget the pain. He can't forgive himself for forgetting the pain. If he almost forgets, he will stick his finger in the wound and make it bigger so that he can't forget it." Lost. In the eyes of others, he may sometimes feel like a wayward child, and sometimes he may be considered naive. In short, that guy only cares about climbing mountains. Others, such as work, women, family, and other interests, are all It doesn't exist in his mind." Hanyu writhed in pain and cried in front of Inoue who flatly refused. "What do you live for?" Saying so, Hanyu scolded Inoue. "Isn't it for climbing a mountain? If you don't go climbing, it's like dying. If you stay here and live like a walking dead, it's better to climb a mountain and die in an avalanche—" This is simply nonsense. Yu lives in a pain that will never heal, and fights like a child. Inoue has been Hanyu's rope friend several times.In terms of climbing skills, instant response, and technique, Inoue trusted Hanyu more than anyone else.However, there are times when Hanyu's crazy moves on the rocks are chilling. Sometimes when looking at Hanyu from the bottom, there is obviously an easier route, but Hanyu will continue to climb towards the difficult route as if possessed by a demon. No matter how you call him from the bottom, he will continue to crawl as if it is a windfall. "Why did you choose the route over there?" When Inoue asked, Hanyu said with an unhappy face: "Isn't it the same as walking on flat ground if you clearly know the route you can climb? In this case, don't climb rocks at all, just take ordinary climbing paths." "Ghost rock is the same thing for that guy." Inoue said. "Don't worry. I've wanted to climb Ghost Rock since before. I didn't think of it suddenly just now, just said it out of the blue." Even ghosts can’t climb that rock field—a rock wall that even ghosts will die if they climb it, so it’s named the rock wall of ghosts’ sorrow. "If a few conditions are met, it's not impossible to climb the ghost rock." "What kind of conditions?" Ino asked subconsciously. "Listen well, there are a few days in winter where the temperature will definitely rise. Just pick that day, in the evening when the moon is out and it is very clear, enter the mountain from the route below the black swamp, sleep halfway, and the temperature will be higher the next day. Just reach the round wall before ascending—" Hanyu said: Just camp and wait at the starting point of the route until these conditions are met. "If the weather is good, the snow will melt a lot due to the heat of the sun, and all the snow that will fall will fall. Then, after nightfall, the snow will freeze and will not fall until the next morning. I have climbed several times A summer route. Even at night, as soon as the snow stops, you can manage to climb it with your headlamp—” On the first night, at the bottom of the hanging rock on the way, the body was fixed on the rock wall with climbing ropes and wedge nails.Even if an avalanche occurs, as long as you stay under the cliff, you don't have to worry about being sucked in.Regarding the details of climbing the ghost rock, Hanyu continued in a slightly excited tone: In that rock wall, there is only one place that can barely accommodate the two of them. To do this, though, the rock has to be climbed at a decent pace. "While listening to what that guy said, I began to feel that maybe we can do it. When I thought about it, I suddenly became excited. Because the medal of climbing Ogre Rock for the first time in winter will remain in the history of Japanese mountaineering—— " Accidentally, Inoue agreed to Hanyu. "The next morning, I regretted it." Inoue originally planned to tell Hanyu that he would not go, but before he could say this, Hanyu came to Inoue's dormitory. Hanyu immediately bought the necessary items and planned to leave that day. "He's an incredible guy..." Up to the last moment, Inoue still wanted to regret and give up. Even when he was clinging to the ghost rock, he thought so, but he couldn't say it to Hanyu in the end.As a result, the two climbed up the ghost rock in winter. From this moment, it can be said that the legend of Hanyu Joji began. Hanyu overcame one of the last notable hurdles of Japan's major crags. It can be said that Hanyu has changed people's concept of winter rock climbing. Since then, Hanyu has successively conquered difficult rock fields in Japan in a shorter time than anyone else. Hanyu's rope friends changed again and again, and Oniwa became his last partner with Inoue. "I can't stand that guy's behavior anymore—" The Himalayan expedition of the Qingfeng Mountaineering Society failed. The British team that entered Annapurna at the same time overcame the south wall challenged by the Qingfeng Mountaineering Association and reached the summit.In the evening, the Qingfeng Mountaineering Club, which the British team tried to reach the summit for three days, failed on the way to the south wall.Although no member of the mountaineering team died, they were hit by an avalanche halfway, and two Sherpas washed away and fell into an ice crevasse and died. Hanyu told the team members who came back that they climbed up the ghost rock. "At that time, that guy said that rope friends are not bad for anyone." It doesn't matter if the other party is not Inoue—— "That guy is right. It doesn't matter if the rope friend is not me. Regardless of whether the rope friend is anyone else, Hanyu will probably succeed in climbing the ghost rock. However, I bet my life at the time. That kind of thing should not be said Beside me say-" Inoue said with a sigh. "The guy didn't know what he said, or how it hurt someone. He probably just said the truth in his head, though. But I don't want to be his rope mate anymore. " Umachi finally said to Fukamachi: "I'm forty-eight years old. That guy should be the same age, he's going to be fifty soon. I retired from the front line of mountain climbing more than ten years ago. I don't know where that guy Hanyu is now, but I just know know one thing." "What's up?" "That is, no matter where that guy is now, as long as he is alive, he will probably still be a climber standing on the front line. He is definitely still climbing, the only thing I can guarantee, if he is still alive—" "yes--" "I don't know how to say it, but there is something scary like a ghost residing in that guy's body. Probably that thing won't stop him from climbing the mountain." "—" "There's no other way for that guy to adopt a lifestyle." There was an envious tone in Inoue's mumbled words. It was April 1974 that Buntaro Kishi joined the Seikaze Mountaineering Club. At that time, Hanyu Jo was in his twenties and thirties. Buntaro Kishi was eighteen years old and was born in Shizuoka Prefecture.Enrolled in a university in Tokyo, and when he came to Tokyo, he joined the Qingfeng Mountaineering Club.Kishi didn't join the mountaineering club he was studying at university, but chose the mountaineering club in the town - Qingfeng Mountaineering Club, because Hanyu was there. Kishi was also one of those attracted by Hanyu's "Oniwa Myth" achieved in 1970. At that time, four years had passed, but apart from Hanyu and Inoue, no one had yet climbed Ogre Rock in winter. Several groups of teams have challenged, but no one has yet overcome the winter-frozen rock face.Each group was forced to retreat, where three died. Hanyu is already among the top climbers in Japan. During this period, a talented climber named Hase Changxiong gradually emerged. Hase is three years younger than Hanyu and is a solo climber. In 1969, when he was 22 years old, he climbed the right route on the south wall of Xingxing Mountain for the first time.The next year, in February 1970, I climbed Tanigawa Takizawa's gully-like rock wall for the first time in winter near the Oniwa route that Hanyu had climbed.Compared with Ghost Rock, although the difficulty is lower, the great thing is that Changgu climbed this route alone. At that time, Japanese climbers turned their attention to the peaks and rock walls of the European Alps, and some people began to want to challenge such difficult rock walls. In 1965, Yoshino Mitsuhiko was the first Japanese to climb the Matterhorn North Face. After the Himalayas, the Qingfeng Mountaineering Association sent an expedition team to the European Alps. This expedition, Hanyu also gave up because he had no money. "It's not called climbing a mountain when you go abroad." Hanyu comforted himself and challenged the more difficult mountains in Japan. Despite the fame, there is no personal sponsor for Hanyu. Hanyu reduced the number of times he went to the mountain, as long as he worked hard in the same workplace for a year or so, he could get a lot of money, but he seemed unable to continue the same job for more than three months. Within two weeks of starting work, he would say: "Sorry, can I take a week off from tomorrow?" There is no suitable workplace for this kind of person. "What's wrong?" "I'm going to climb a mountain." "climb mountains?" "yes." The boss who understands the reason said: "I'm afraid not." "Then, I resign." Hanyu readily resigned from his job. In addition, he often leaves his job because of quarrels with others. When Ito asked the reason, Hanyu said: "Because they look at me with contempt." "Who?" "Like a gangster's young lad." "Even if he's younger, he's older than you, right?" "It's the boss. The guy has a problem with the way I work. He looks down on me because I don't have a high school or college degree." "That's not the case." "Have." Hanyu quits his job after beating up what he says is a young boss who "looks down on him". Hanyu has no place in the so-called normal society. "I'll work hard this time—" Hanyu had said this to Ito several times, but he went to work in a new workplace, and it didn't last long. Every time a person changes jobs, his life becomes more and more undisciplined, but from a worldly perspective, Hanyu has been undisciplined from the very beginning.He said that he often lives in tents anyway, so the apartment he lives in only rents rooms that can accommodate people. A room of more than two square meters in a narrow wooden apartment, with shared bathroom and toilet——that was Hanyu's castle from before until he was thirty. Hanyu would sometimes agitately force his partner to do the same. "I can't find time for work. It's good to make work fit with mountain climbing. I've always done that. If work can't fit with mountain climbing, just quit—" Hanyu's way of speaking doesn't seem to be outspoken because of anger. He is serious.He really thought so, and said what was on his mind. None of Hanyu's rope friends partnered with him for a long time.Because I can't keep up with Hanyu's personality and approach. He wants to go abroad to climb mountains. Obviously more capable than anyone else, he yearned for the rocky walls of the European Alps and the rocky peaks of the Himalayas, but Hanyu had no chance to go. Hanyu was two or thirty years old. The climbing partners also began to marry and have children one by one. Gradually, everyone moved away from the dangerous rock wall—— During this period, Buntaro Kishi joined the club. "Because of Mr. Hanyu." When asked about his motivation for joining the club, Kishi answered straightforwardly. Kishi stuck to Hanyu, saying "Mr. Hanyu". Being followed and followed by others——Hanyu is not used to this kind of thing.The more Kishi clings to Hanyu, the stricter Hanyu trains him. Staying by Hanyu's side is a sad thing for others.Not only will you encounter danger, but it will also be a great physical torture. However, Kishi doesn't seem to feel bitter. Hanyu is not the type to carefully teach others how to climb. But he taught Kishi for the first time. Although it was teaching, Hanyu only said: "Look!" Then, in front of Kishi's eyes, he crawled on his own to show him.Kishi watched him climb and gradually learned how to climb rocks. "Start with the left foot." Hanyu would briefly give Kishi such advice when he was clinging to the rocks. Depending on the rock, starting with the right or left foot can make a huge difference in the difficulty of the rest of the climb.Sometimes if you hit the rock with the wrong foot at the beginning, you may even get stuck in the middle of the rock wall, unable to move your body. Kishi often followed Hanyu's ass. Hanyu also didn't feel that Kishi following behind him was particularly in the way.On the contrary, it can be said that the two get along well. Kishi has no parents. His parents died when he was nine and twelve years old. Father died in a mountain disaster.When entering the Northern Alps in winter, I was caught in an avalanche.Mother died of cancer. He studied at his uncle's house in Shizuoka and moved to Tokyo after graduating from high school. He has a sister who is three years younger than him in high school.My younger sister still lives at my uncle's house in Shizuoka. Kishi's experience is similar to his own, and I don't know if Hanyu has seen his own shadow from him. Shore's savvy is excellent. His body is perfect for rock climbing. "He probably has talent." Ito said to Fukamachi. "His climbing style is also very similar to Hanyu." When climbing a simple rock field, if you just look at the shadow, his movements are exactly the same as Hanyu. Two years later, if it is a simple rock field, he has been able to climb the second place and serve as Hanyu's rope mate. Kishi joined the Qingfeng Mountaineering Association, and after more than two and a half years in that winter—— mid december. Hanyu's partner who originally planned to enter the mountain together canceled the scheduled trip. The reason is—— You can't ask for leave from work. Hanyu scolded his partner sternly as usual. He is Ken and Hanyu who entered the mountain together and tied each other with climbing ropes. He is a very valuable partner in the Qingfeng Mountaineering Club. Hanyu lost that partner. In the mountaineering club, there was no one who could partner with Hanyu. At this time, it was the 20-year-old Buntaro Kishi who asked to take him with him. "impossible." Hanyu said. The mountain to climb is winter. The location is Bingfeng Rock in the Northern Alps. There may be frozen snow on the rock walls, and camping among the rocks is required.To what extent can Kishi cope with this? After conquering the Pingfeng Rock, you must drop by the Takiya in Beisui.Rock climbing again.This requires knowledge, physical strength, as well as judgment and skill. It would be fine if it was summer or autumn, but Kishi wasn't strong enough to deal with Takitani in winter. "I can. Please take me." "no." "If I get in the way, you can leave me at any time. If it's dangerous, it doesn't matter if you cut the climbing rope—" As a result, Hanyu backed down. Hanyu went into the Northern Alps with Kishi in December, and came back alone. Kishi turned into a corpse and was carried back to Tokuzawa Mountain House by Hanyu. Even in winter, in the Tokuzawa mountain house between Kamikochi and Yokoo, there are people who are responsible for guarding the mountain house. At night, someone knocked on the door of the mountain house, opened the door and found Hanyu covered in snow standing in front of the door with Kishi's body on his shoulder. An inhuman corpse. The femur bone in the right foot was broken and inserted from the crotch close to the lung. Hanyu briefly explained the situation. Hanyu is the guide. To be precise, after climbing up the hanging rock, climb in a zigzag and move to the left right above the hanging rock. From directly below Hanyu's feet to the rock shed below, there was nothing but a space with a drop of 200 meters. Kishi secured himself with a climbing rope in the middle of the rocks, but fell.Because the rock bearing the weight of the shore peeled off from the rock wall and collapsed. Of course, the leading Hanyu was also torn from the rock wall. Falling Kishi and Hanyu tied each other with climbing ropes. At first, due to the force of the fall from the shore, the pegs were stripped from the rock he was using to secure himself, and the climbing rope tightened as a result, tearing Hanyu off the rock face.However, Hanyu did not fall.On his way from where he had secured himself to where he had been ripped off, he drove the wedge into the wall, snapped the buckle and threaded the climbing rope through it.The end of the climbing rope was fastened to the safety belt buckle on Hanyu's waist.Hanyu's body dragged along the surface of the rock face, and stopped at the place where the wedge was driven in on the way. A wedge driven into the rock supported the weight of Hanyu and Kishi. Kishi was suspended thirty meters below Hanyu, still alive. "Are you OK?" Hanyu said to the shore. "Sorry." Hanyu heard Kishi's voice. But Kishi was nowhere to be seen. One meter below Hanyu is the upper half of the hanging rock, and the rock wall is recessed inward from there. The taut climbing rope could be seen touching the upper half of the overhanging rock, but the rest disappeared beneath the rock and was out of sight. The two tried to talk aloud. Kishi's body was four meters away from the rock wall. If he didn't swing his body like a pendulum, his hands would not be able to reach the rock wall.Even if you reach the rock wall, you just touch it, and you can't grab it.On the smooth surface of the hanging rock, there is nothing to grasp. Hanyu's range of motion is also limited. The shackles of the climbing ropes he was tying were pulled just enough to touch the shackles hanging on the wedges driven into the rock wall. With this body position, it is impossible to pull the shore up with arm strength.If he uses his own body weight to let himself fall, Kishi's body will naturally be pulled up in theory, but if he falls one meter, he will also be suspended in the air formed by the hanging rock. With an unnatural body posture, Hanyu first drove two wedges into the rock in front of him, and then put a rope ring on the wedges to temporarily fix his body. With great difficulty, Hanyu made up his mind and unfastened the buckle on the front end of the nine-centimeter nylon rope from the seat belt.At the same time, pull the buckle on which the climbing rope is attached to the other buckle that was originally pulled to the wedge.Since the climbing rope bears Kishi's weight, considerable arm strength was required, but Hanyu managed it. In this way, although it was only the length of the rope loop—about thirty centimeters—Hanyu could finally leave his body off the rock wall and move freely. Hanyu straightened his upper body from the rock face, put his body weight on the rope ring used to fix himself, and looked down. frightening heights. Finally, he saw Kishi's body hanging below. "I just finished self-assurance." Hanyu said to the following: "How? Can you climb up with a Prussian knot?" "no." A weak voice came from below. Prussian Knot—a method of tying a loop to a climbing rope that hangs down from above, and using that loop to climb up. The rope ring is a ring formed by knotting a thin nylon rope about 60 centimeters.Although the length will vary depending on the use, climbers will hang several rope loops on the waist buckle and use the rope loops when securing a rope partner or securing themselves. Rope loops are also used when tying the Prussian knot. Tie one end of the loop to a climbing rope and tie a special knot - so that when you pull on the other end of the loop that is not tied to the climbing rope, it will only move in one direction, but not the other way direction to move.In other words, it is to tie a knot that only moves up the climbing rope, but not down, and hang one end on the buckle of your own safety belt, so that you can not only use your arm strength, but also put your weight on the climbing rope Get rest, and the height you have already risen will not fall because of the rest. Once clinging to the rock wall, when climbing up, or climbing in a Z-shape horizontally on the wall, it is inevitable to use the strength of the hands and feet. Still will continue to consume, which is painful.However, using a Prussian knot, at least when not moving, preserves strength. However, using the Prussian knot to climb a rock wall basically refers to the practice of attaching your body to the rock wall. It is not used to climb a climbing rope, but to climb the rock wall while using the Prussian knot on the rope to climb— — This climbing method is basically an auxiliary technique. In the state of being suspended on the climbing rope, it is difficult for even a person with strong arms to climb the climbing rope with only the Prussian knot.What's more, there was a thirty-meter difference in height. It was almost impossible to do that while wearing winter gear.On the rock field used for practice, it's okay to do it when you are full of energy and only wear a T-shirt, but the shore has just fallen 30 meters. Although the safety belt at the waist supported the speed of the 30-meter fall, the momentum should have caused considerable damage to the internal organs and spine of the bank. He really couldn't climb up with the Prussian knot. However, Hanyu knew that Kishi would not be able to climb up, so he had to keep talking to Kishi below. Looking around, you can see the white peaks of Chang Nianyue and Dieyue on the opposite side. The shadows of Yuehua and fir trees are reflected in the silvery white snow under my eyes. In another seven to ten days, maybe people who use their annual leave to enter the mountain will come to this rock site, but now in this vast world, there are only Hanyu and Kishi. If this continues, Kishi and Hanyu themselves will die. Even if the shore is left here, if you want to climb up alone, you still need climbing ropes. Hanyu was desperate. He grabbed the climbing rope several times and tried to pull the shore up, but he couldn't pull it up even two meters. In the beginning, the two had frequent conversations, but it gradually turned into a relationship.Kishi's voice gradually weakened. Kishi appears to have suffered internal injuries. After one or two hours, Hanyu's physical strength was gradually exhausted. "Because it's broken." Hanyu said to the guard at the Tokuzawa mountain house. "broken?" "The climbing rope hit a rocky corner and broke there." Hanyu explained this. Thus, Hanyu was free. Later, Hanyu came to the top of Pingfeng Rock alone, took Xia Tian's mountaineering path down the mountain, and collected the corpses for the shore, and finally arrived here after a lot of hard work. Hanyu said the same thing to the police and to the members of the Qingfeng Mountaineering Association. For the sake of caution, the police checked the fracture of the climbing rope, where there were traces of being worn off by rocks. Accident-- The incident ended unexpectedly. One month after the accident, Hanyu withdrew from the Qingfeng Mountaineering Club. And it doesn't matter who started it. But in the Qingfeng Mountaineering Club, there are rumors like this: Could it be Hanyu who cut it off? There must have been a fact close to the accident that Hanyu said, but could the climbing rope not be broken by the rock, but Hanyu cut it with a knife in order to save himself—? Of course, no one was there except Hanyu and Kishi, so this is just imagination. Moreover, the person who said it was only half joking. Although it was half-joking, if the person involved was Hanyu——he couldn't deny that he had such thoughts. If it were me, I'd cut the climbing rope. Hanyu once said this straightforwardly. Hanging on a rock wall with a rope buddy. Oneself is above, the other party is below.If this continues, both of them will die. If the climbing rope is cut and the people below fall, the people above will be saved—when faced with such a situation... Hanyu said: If it were me, I would cut the climbing rope. However, the cut of the climbing rope was worn off by the rock—— For that kind of thing, there is always a way to do it afterwards. No one would admit that they had said that. Someone said something like that - or there was a rumor like that - everyone was gossiping about Hanyu in that situation. Although it was half-joking, the dialogue always had a real overtone unintentionally, because the protagonist of that topic was Joji Hanyu. Fukamachi couldn't directly know how much Hanyu Joji cared about Hase Tsuneo. However, Fukamachi could imagine how Hanyu looked at this talented young climber who was three years younger than him. Although the age difference is only three years, for Hanyu, Hase belongs to a new generation of climbers.At least, Fukamachi felt that Hanyu should treat Hase that way. Hase's talent and strength are almost the same as Hanyu's. The biggest difference is the personality and character of the two. And the two of them probably have different luck. Hanyu is often surrounded by a gloomy atmosphere. In contrast, Hase is as bright as the wind, both in character and climbing style. If Hanyu’s rock climbing gives people the impression of climbing on the white ice in the northern valley where the sun does not shine; then Hase’s rock climbing gives people the impression of crawling on the verdant rock wall bathed in sunlight in the south. Hase successively conquered the main rock walls in Japan, and soon moved the main battlefield to the mountain walls of the European Alps. In contrast, Hanyu is still climbing the domestic rock walls. After Kishi Buntaro died, Hanyu began to like to climb mountains by himself. Depending on the situation, sometimes he will partner with others, but most of the rock walls conquered by Hanyu during this period were completed by himself. in addition-- In the process of investigating Hanyu, Fukamachi discovered a strange thing. Hanyu had no women around him. No matter who I asked, no one said that Hanyu had ever dated a particular woman. "Women? Probably not—?" As Ito said, so did others: "I don't know." Just such a short sentence. "But there's no rumor that he's 'this'—" Speaking of "this", the man raised his right hand and put his right arm on his left cheek. That action means "gay" or "shemale". "—You can't judge by appearance, maybe he's messing around where we can't see it." In any case, it wasn't long before Hanyu and Hase were locked in a long contest.

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