Hidetada Sudo, the mayor of the city of Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Prefecture, expressed anger over people’s defiance of rules ...

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However, since he failed to climb to the same height the second time, it seems his efforts went in vain, and his phone remains on Mount Fuji. The hiking season on Mount Fuji begins in the summer.

He was at a height of some 12,388 feet when he had to ... and many of the signposts have been temporarily removed, CNN notes. Mount Fuji is one of Japan’s most popular tourist destinations ...

TOKYO — A climber was rescued twice in one week from Japan’s Mount Fuji after he went back to search for his lost phone, police said Monday. On Sunday, rescuers carried the climber on a ...

Authorities in Japan have rescued the same climber from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week. The 27-year-old man was first rescued on Tuesday after falling ill, Shizuoka ...

A Chinese national had to be rescued for the second time in four days after experiencing sickness Getty A student from China was rescued twice from Japan’s Mount Fuji in just four days after he ...

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities said Monday.

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A student was rescued twice from Japan’s Mount Fuji after developing altitude sickness. The 27-year-old returned four days after his first rescue to try and find his phone and other belongings ...