While other climbers are hurrying along the paths of Mt. Nanhu, passing carelessly by the Nanhu glacial terrain which they have probably only vaguely heard of, Nelson Yang follows in the footsteps of the biogeographer Tadao Kano who discovered the glaciated landscape during the Japanese occupation, searching out one by one the cirques described in Kano's articles and sketch maps.
當登山客忙著在南湖大山山徑趕路，對傳聞的南湖冰河遺跡，輕忽地略過，他卻隨著日據時代發現冰河遺跡的生物地理學者鹿野忠雄的腳步，把他的論文與手繪圖中冰斗的位置一一找了出來。