Makoto Fukamachi

A 40 year old Japanese mountaineering photographer and climber. In 1993, he lost one of his companions in an Everest expedition and considered quitting mountain climbing. Shortly after, in a shop in Kathmandu, he finds a Pocket Autographic Kodak camera who supposedly belonged to George Mallory, an English mountaineer who went missing on Mount Everest during an expedition in 1924.

While searching for the origin of the camera, he encounters a mysterious mountain climber who the nepalese call Bikha Sanp, who Fukamachi realizes may very well be Jouji Habu, a legendary Japanese mountaineer who disappeared from the scene several years ago. Unfortunately for Fukamachi however, Bikha Sanp refuses to talk to him and leaves with the camera in tow. Fukamachi feels strongly compelled by Jouji Habu's life and starts to chase after him.