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"I don't think we conquered Everest, I think the mountain relented."
"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
"...even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve."
- Sir Edmund Hillary
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「山に対して優勝することじゃなくて、自分自身のことに対して優勝することだ。」
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Hiroshima A-bomb Dome
Hiroshima - 6th August 1945 - 1 bomb - 200,000 + lives
A-bomb Dome
Ruins of the Industrial Promotion Hall, declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in December 1996.
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
The flame burning in this monument is not intended to be eternal - when the last nuclear weapon on earth has been destroyed it will be extinguished.
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
With view through to the Flame of Peace and the A-Bomb Dome.
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
Peace Bell
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
Children's Peace Memorial - inspired by bomb survivor Sadako who developed leukaemia at the age of 10. She believed that if she could fold 1000 paper cranes (a symbol of longevity and happiness) she would recover. She was only able to fold 644 before she died, but school friends folded the remaining 356 and buried these with her.
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
Children's Peace Memorial
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
Children's Peace Memorial. One of these booths is left open each day for delivery of paper cranes which come from all over Japan.
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
Children's Peace Memorial
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
Children's Peace Memorial
Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park
Korean Victims' Memorial
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