The story of a man who challenges a towering white god. The man keeps climbing only to settle his past. An alpine epic by Taniguchi Jiro, winner of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize. (Source: Futabasha, translated)

Matagi (traditional winter hunters of the Touhoku region of northern Japan) hunted animals deep in the Ou Mountains. They used ancestral methods to hunt down bears. One of the Matagi men is Sanshiro.