Kokou no Hito (Japanese: 孤高の人) or The Climber is a Japanese manga series written by Shinichi Sakamoto and Yoshirō Nabeda and illustrated by Shinichi Sakamoto, based on a novel by Jirō Nitta. It was originally serialized in Weekly Young Jump from 2007 to 2012, with the 170 chapters later published into 17 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha.