Seventeen (クライマーズ・ハイ, Kuraimāzu hai, Climber's High) is a 2003 novel by Hideo Yokoyama, published by Bungeishunjū.
[1] Yokoyama had worked as an investigative journalist covering the Japan Air Lines Flight 123 affair.
[2] Upon realizing that people may forget important news events, he decided to change his career to writing.
[1] Kawai stated that it took about six months to write a draft of the English translation, and that she had to do background research on the events.
[1] In the 1985 portions Yuuki worked for the North Kanto Times (NKT), a fictional newspaper.