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Mount Ishizuchi 石鎚山 The peak Part 4

We had finally reached the peak. We enveloped by heavy clouds by they eventually lifted rewarding us with better views. The climb up took just over 5 hours. A large temple at the top was full of resting hikers waiting for the clouds to dissipate. We, however, decided to continue and walk across the peak.

The ridge across the peak is around a meter to two meters wide with certain death one onside and near certain death on then other. There is a cliff drop for a few hundred meters and the other side a steep rocky slope loosely covered in trees.

The clouds began to clear giving a realization of how frighteningly high we were on those ridges. Being afraid of heights i timidly followed my comrades but lagged behind. The path split into two with one being less dangerous on.

I wouldn't call these paths as such as they are mostly exposed rocks and dirt from weathering and the occasional walker.

Unfortunately the clouds never really cleared so we could only see the immediate mountain we were on and maybe some of the neighboring mountains. However, the trip was worth it and would probably do it again if pushed.

The way back was much quicker as it was all paths and steps, the chains maybe be even quicker but going down would be more dangerous and you would get in the way of those climbing up. All the steps were pretty hard on the legs, more so than climbing up. I would definitely recommend anyone interested to go this mountain.

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