On August 9,1995 I arrived in Chamonix with my wife and started our life in the room
which we had rented. We cooked for ourselves for two weeks during our stay there.
As I had never climbed mountains higher than 4,000 meters, I had to train myself in
order to be ready for climbing so high.

Chamonix is situated in the center of the deep valley with both sides surrounded by
the needles massive over 3000meters high. First we spent some days hiking to Lac
Blanc (2350M) and Montenvers(1913M) where we could go inside the glacier. It was
so mysterious inside.

Next, we climbed up to the top of Aiguille du Midi (3842M) by ropeway, from where we,
my wife and I togeter with my Japanese friend who worked as an assistant guide in
Chamonix, started to walk on the snow to Refuge des Cosmiques on the another route
to Mont Blanc.

Aiguille du Midi is anyway a beautiful and breathtaking spot. It is uncredible to know that
they built the ropeway up to the higher point than Mr. Fuji (3776M) in Japan, and what's
more, it carries us to Italy floating over the glacier about one hour. The view from the
ropeway was too wonderful to discribe.

I hired a French guide who could not speak Japanese as well as English. All he spoke
were "Stop here!" and "Drink water!". I had to communicate with him in French. I think
I understood what he meant and made myself understood in French as I had learned
French a little. I met him for briefing the day before climbing..

I took an early bus to the cable car station where my guide waited for me. The cable
car and the mountain railway took us to Le Nid d'Agle (2365M). This is the starting point
for Mont Blanc. At first I enjoyed walking on the gentle slope till I got to the crag.. I
clambered up and up. We stayed at Refuge de l'Aig du Gouter.

Next day it was a nice day. From the mountain hut we were to make an ascent on the
snow. I was on the rope with the guide for fear that I should fall down deep into the
valley. My guide never gave me enough time to take a rest. Whenever we stopped, he
said to me,"Drink water", not letting me sit. Presuming me to be a man full of vigor, he
speeded up and, to my surprise, he was beginning to leave the front party behind. In order
to leave them behind we had to take off its right course and go up on the fresh snow
not trod down. By doing so I consumed a lot of energy. As soon as we went ahead, I felt
awfully tired. Saying to myself,"The devil", I followed him.

The view from the top of Mont Blanc was truly wonderful. I really meant it after many
hours of hard climbing. Clear sky! The grand panorama with nothing obstructing 360 degree
wide. It was next to impossible for me to discribe this scinic beauty. All other mountains
are below me, Les Grandes Jorusses (4208M) is there in front of me. I shaked hands with
the guide and thanked him for taking me to the summit

Soon I came to feel very cold, then the guide sigaled me to descend. We went down at a
stretch to the mountain railway station.