Tamotsu Nakamura

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Tamotsu Nakamura in London receiving the Busk Medal from the Royal Geographical Society

Tamotsu Nakamura (* 1934 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese mountaineer , photographer and author. Since 1990 he has been documenting the mountain regions of the Tibetan Plateau between the Himalayas and the Sichuan Basin with photographs and cartography .

Life

After studying business administration at the renowned Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, worked in heavy industry at Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd, most recently from 1989 to 1994 as Managing Director of IHI Hong Kong Ltd.

Nakamura is married with two children and lives in Tokyo after years of residency in Pakistan (1967–1971), Mexico (1975–1982), New Zealand (1984–1989) and Hong Kong (1989–1994).

Nakamura is the editor of Japanese Alpine News.

His mountaineering career began in 1953 as a member of the Hitotsubashi University Mountaineering Club in the Japanese mountains. His greatest alpine successes were the first ascent of the Pucajirca Norte (6046 m, Cordillera Blanca / Peru) in 1961 and three first and several second ascent in the Cordillera Apolobamba and Pupuya in Bolivia.

Exploring the "Alps of Tibet"

Since 1990 Nakamura has undertaken 31 exploratory trips (as of summer 2009) to what he called the “Alps of Tibet” in the southeastern area of ​​the Tibetan plateau . He has identified over 250 unclimbed six-thousanders and documented most of them with photographs. Numerous articles written by him in the alpine magazines American Alpine Journal , Alpine Journal , Himalayan Journal , Japanese Alpine News , Altitudes and Vertical have increasingly drawn the attention of international alpinism to the mountain regions east of the Himalayas in recent years. The US-American online magazine Alpinist calls him the "Steward of Unclimbed Peaks" ("administrator of unclimbed mountain peaks").

Awards

  • 2003 The Prince Chichibu Memorial Mountaineering Award 2003, given by the Japanese Alpine Club for exploration in Eastern Tibet
  • 2007 UIAA Award for outstanding contributions to the promotion of international alpinism
  • 2008 Busk Medal, Royal Geographical Society , London, for exploring the mountainous regions of western China and eastern Tibet
  • Honorary memberships in the Himalayan Club (India), American Alpine Club (USA), Alpine Club (Great Britain), Japanese Alpine Club (Japan), as well as UIAA honorary member

Publications

  • East of the Himalayas (in Japanese). Yamakei Publishers, Tokyo 1996, ISBN 4-635-28037-3
  • Deep Gorge Country (in Japanese). Yamakei Publishers, Tokyo 2000, ISBN 4-635-28038-1
  • The Alps of Tibet (in Japanese). Yamakei Publishers, Tokyo 2004, ISBN 4-635-28062-4
  • East of the Himalayas - To the Alps of Tibet . Japanese Alpine News, Vol. 4 May 2003 Special Submission
  • The Alps of Tibet . Detjen-Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937597-25-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Alps of Tibet . Detjen-Verlag, Hamburg 2008
  2. ↑ http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web08s/wfeature-nakamura-unclimbed-peaks
  3. ↑ http://www.theuiaa.org/news_18_Honouring-Japanese-mountaineers
  4. ↑ http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/394B02C2-554F-4F37-8FE4-1921B0D180D4/0/2008MedalWinners.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Tamotsu Nakamura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese mountaineer, photographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo