No. 14 April 1969 Cover: Nuptse Peak (Takehide Kazami) Table of Contents Illustration (Kazuhiko Okabe) Text Cuts (Hiroshi Iwa) Himalayan Special Feature Fold-out Supplement: Four-color #Himalaya Large Map Himalayan Age Revisited (Editorial Department) Political Background from the Ban to the Lifting of the Ban on Mountaineering in #Nepal (Yasuharu Yamazaki) On #Pioneer Work in the Himalayas (Michio Yuasa) A Personal Opinion on Future Himalayan Expeditions (Yoshimi Yakushi) Future Issues in Himalayan Mountaineering (Keiichi Tsukamoto) Thoughts on Technology and Equipment in the "Iron" Age (Ichiro Yoshizawa) High-Altitude Climbing Equipment (Toshio Matsushima) Considerations on Himalayan Mountaineering Food (Shinya Nishimaru) High-Altitude Climbing and the Human Body (Aoi Murai) Himalayan Weather (Shoichi Oi) Expedition Plans of Japanese Teams (Editorial Department) #Variation Routes in the Himalayas (Masatsugu Konishi) Himalaya, #Hindu Kush - Notes (Ichiro Yoshizawa) Himalayan Maps and Literature (Toru Kanbara) History of Himalayan Peak Ascents (Hiroshi Nakajima) Abridged History of Himalayan Disasters (Taizo Suwa) Notes on #Bhutan (Sasuke Nakao) Recollections of #Hunza (Sumio Shima) <Roundtable Discussion> Himalayan Mountaineering #Katsuichi Honda