74-Year-Old Japanese Mountaineer Promotes Eco Practice to Protect Hometown Mountains: “Take Everything Home with You”

NAGANO — Yoshitomi Okura, a 74-year-old mountaineer from Iida, Nagano Prefecture, advocates “eco mountaineering,” a way of climbing mountains without placing a burden on nature. He has put it into practice in the mountains of the Southern Japanese Alps, where magnificent nature still remains.