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, Drama
Manga
Written by	Jiro Taniguchi
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA / UK Fanfare/Ponent Mon
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Business Jump
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

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 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.

The manga was originally serialized in the magazine Business Jump by Shueisha between May 2000 and July 2003 issues. It was collected into five tankōbon published between December 15, 2000 and March 20, 2003, then re-released in bunkoban between October 18, 2006 and January 18, 2007. An English-language version was licensed by British company Fanfare/Ponent Mon in 2007. On July 23, 2009, its first volume was released, and the last was released on July 31, 2015. It has also been licensed in French by Kana, German by Schreiber & Leser, and Spanish by Ponent Mon.

In 2001, it was awarded a prize for excellence by the Agency for Cultural Affairs at the Japan Media Arts Festival, which praised its "powerful illustrations [that] seem to transport the reader right up into the mountains." Its English adaptation received a nomination for Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel and Outstanding Series in 2010. The fourth English volume also was nominated at the 2014 Eisner Award in the category "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia".