One small step at a time
Dr Jun’ichi Shinozaki, a deceptively gentle physician with a soothing bedside manner, freely admits to loving the dangers involved in difficult climbs. After being diagnosed with a malignancy, his first thought was to attempt Everest. "I needed to deliberately challenge something that, unlike my cancer, I could confront personally," he explains.
"There are hundreds of thousands of children growing up in environments intensely hostile to their healthy growth. As a physician and a father, I feel strongly that something must be done.”
An enthusiastic alpinist since age 14, Shinozaki once conquered 20 Asian peaks on a single expedition, and sees mountaineering as an antidote to many worldly problems. "For me, medicine and mountains are the two wheels of my own psychic cart; they keep me balanced and more aware of everything I do," he says.
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Dr Jun’ichi Shinozaki
519-1-22 Sanfukuji-cho
Takayama-shi
Gifu 455
JapanTel: + 81 577 33 5202
vem16235@nifty.com
