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Gaku: Minna no Yama (岳 みんなの山 lit. Peak: Everyone’s Mountain) is a Japanese mountaineering manga written and illustrated by Shin’ichi Ishizuka. It has been serialized by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original since 2003 and collected in eighteen bound volumes. It depicts the adventures of a volunteer with an alpine search and rescue team in the Japanese Alps. Gaku: Minna no Yama received the 2008 Manga Taisho (Cartoon Grand Prize) and the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.