The choice not to have him as a running companion convinces Takaya's father to realize that desire that had kept him away from home for 15 years. His wife wanted to go to Kilimanjaro and the race that her husband had to win would have served to realize that dream. Now that Takaya is an adult, his father reveals the truth to him by letter, but in the meantime the man is left, lifeless on the snows of the mountain.
