“The Golden Ridge” Series Part 1 – Mt. Mizugaki (金峰稜線編：瑞牆山): Hyakumeizan #17. 04/12/20

Hello again everybody, Alex here. I thought I’d finally get around to updating this with a couple of mountains that I did back at the start of December – beginning with a trip out to “The Golden Ridge” series – three of the Hundred Famous mountains of Japan – Mt. Mizugaki, Mt. Kinpu, and Mt.

Yatsugatake Series Part 1 – Mt. Aka (八ヶ岳編：赤岳): Hyakumeizan #14. 21/11/20

Hello everybody, Alex here. As always, slightly late updating this, as I have a fair bit of a backlog of mountains at the moment, but here we are! This time I went on a three day ridge walk spanning from Mt. Aka in the Yatsugatake range to Kirigamine’s main peak, Mt. Kuruma (霧ヶ峰の車山), passing through

The Northern Alps Series: Mt. Goryu (五竜岳): Hyakumeizan #11. 18/10/20 – 14 Hour Ridge-walk

Hello folks, Alex here. This is part 2, and the continuation of the previous blog post where we left off at Hakuba-Sanso. There was a massive amount of walking required today, in relatively mixed conditions, ranging from deep snow to fairly intense rock climbing/navigation. As such, I’ll let the pictures do the talking, and leave

(Mt.) Daisen (大山): Hyakumeizan #8. 09/10/20

Hello everybody, this is one of two mountains that I climbed this weekend, so we’ll start with the one I did first: Daisen, in Tottori (鳥取) prefecture (Northwestern Japan). Daisen literally translates to “Great Mountain”, or “Big Mountain”, and not surprise at all, it is incredibly integral to religious sects of Buddhism within Japan (As

The Northern Alps Series: Mt. Tsurugi (剱岳): Hyakumeizan #6. 21/06/20

Hello again everybody, it’s me again. This is the second and final day of my Northern Alps expedition this time, and although today had an incredibly unfortunate ending, it was just as unforgettable as yesterday. Mt. Tsurugi lies before me today and the extensive amount of climbing proved to be both a challenging and fantastic