Episode 23 - Yuichi Matsuda | The Kapadia Interviews

Alpine Club member and former Editor of the Himalayan Journal Harish Kapadia has, over a period of nearly two decades, conducted interviews with many notable figures from the world of mountaineering.
In 2023, Kapadia formally made a gift of these recordings to the Alpine Club Library. From December 2023 onwards, we will be releasing these interviews once a week via our KZbin channel so that they can be enjoyed by mountain-enthusiasts throughout the world. Episodes will release on Thursday mornings UK time.
In this audio-only recording from 11 April 2007, Harish sits down with Japanese mountaineer and fellow Himalayan Club member Yuichi Matsuda. The pair discuss Matsuda San's early experiences of hill walking during the Second World War, his various expeditions to the likes of Manaslu, Himalchuli (pictured) and Everest, and how he met his wife through the Japanese Alpine Club.
The Alpine Club Library holds a wealth of mountaineering material to which we are very pleased to add these recordings. You can learn more about the Alpine Club Library, and the Alpine Club more generally, via our website: www.alpineclub...
The photograph of Himalchuli which is used to illustrate the video was taken by Prashant Shrestha and is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License: creativecommon... The image has not been altered, but a waveform has been superimposed on top of it.