"Because It's There" Words attributed to George Mallory ahead of his attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1924. An expedition from which he and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, never returned. Almost 70 years later in 1993, with Mallory's body still undiscovered on the mountain, a Japanese expediton photographer stumbles across a 1920's Kodak camera in a Kathmandu bazaar which sparks a whole series of questions with few answers. The Summit of the Gods is an epic story of man and his personal conquests against his own limitations. No mountain is too high, no peak too distant in his pursuit of this passion for achievement. But Taniguchi's realistic art and Baku's tireless script will take you to such heights that mountaineers only dream about.

Winner Best Art Award at the Angouleme Festival France 2005.

George Mallory's body is discovered on Everest's North Face minus his Kodak in 1999