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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



A HUNTER WORSHIPING ON TPIE SUMMIT OF YARI-GA-TAKE 



Next to Fuji, Yari-ga-take (Spear Peak) is the highest mountain in Japan. On every hand 

 its granite spires are streaked with snow at most seasons of the year. 



Photographs from Walter Weston 



MOUNTAIN PILGRIMS IN A JAPANESE) ALPINE VALLEY 



These worshipers are bound for the shrine on the summit of the sacred mountain of Ontake. 

 Each mountain has its particidar divinity. 



