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