孤高の人 [Kokou no Hito / Kokō no Hito] #16

A young man's face fills the cover of this sixteenth volume — intense, sweat-dampened, bathed in an otherworldly green glow against a star-scattered darkness — radiating the quiet, iron determination that defines this mountain-climbing manga. The subtitle The Climber says it all, and Shinichi Sakamoto's artwork delivers a portrait of solitary resolve that draws you straight into the series' atmosphere of extreme altitude and inner struggle. Whether you're following the story from the beginning or just discovering it here, this volume promises more of the series' signature tension between human will and the indifferent heights above.