The Summit of the Gods
| The Summit of the Gods | |
Cover of the first volume of The Summit of the Gods, as released by Shueisha | |
| 神々の山嶺 (Kamigami no Itadaki) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Historical |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Jiro Taniguchi |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Business Jump |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 2000 – 2003 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Live-action film | |
| Everest: Kamigami no Itadaki | |
| Directed by | Hideyuki Hirayama |
| Written by | Masato Kato |
| Music by | Takashi Kako |
| Studio | Kadokawa Corporation |
| Released | March 12, 2016 |
| Animated film | |
The Summit of the Gods (Japanese: 神々の山嶺, Hepburn: Kamigami no Itadaki) is a manga series written and illustrated by Jiro Taniguchi. Based on a 1998 novel by Baku Yumemakura, it follows Fukamachi, a photographer who finds a camera supposedly belonging to George Mallory, a mountaineer who went missing on Mount Everest, and goes on a mountain-climbing adventure along with his friend Habu Joji.