A solid opening about a guy who's moody and gloomy but wants to climb because it gives him a reason to live?

Basically he doesn't care about shit till he's almost forced to climb a school building and makes it. Now he wants to climb an entire mountain. Like most sports manga, we're built up to learn the fundamentals of the sport, and it's no different here. So I feel once we get past that we'll get to the nitty gritty storyline. But so far it's solid save for the friend/soon to be friend who did a rape joke, not cool but it was 2007 and shit was weird back then.

A 3 out of 5.