Trekking
for Taisuke Itoh

Below the picture of the pagoda of the 50th anniversary after the first ascent of Mt. Everest, Itotai records the fact that Sir Hillary who left the famous words "Because the mountain is here" built the schools and hospital in the villages of Khumjung and Khumde at the foot of Mt.  Everest. (Ref. Picture of This Month,  (January 2005)

Itotai-san,
you trek, why?
why do you paint,
take pictures or
maintain your homepages?

In the guise of you
I repeat many questions to myself again and again
"Why?"

And then, I feel like
I can see the grave rocky summits of the Himalayas
and their entire figure which have kept you tempted unceasingly.

Interrogatory still goes on with each of your pages
and doesn't quite result simply in the words
"because the mountain is there",
does it?