Officials said the unnamed mountaineer was alone on the Fujinomiya trail on April 22. He had to be rescued again just four ...

Authorities in Japan have rescued the same climber from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week. The ...

Image via Shutterstock At that point, I'd probably just go home. A mountain climber needed rescuing not once but twice in ...

A climber airlifted from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week was rescued again just four days later after returning to retrieve his cell phone.

A student was rescued while climbing Mount Fuji and attempted to return days later to retrieve his phone – and had to be airlifted a second time.

The 27-year-old university student was carried down the iconic Japanese mountain on a stretcher days after being airlifted from its peak.

People are discouraged from climbing Mount Fuji outside of the official climbing season that runs from July to September A 27-year-old university student who climbed Mount Fuji outside of its ...

A man in his 20s was airlifted from Japan's Mount Fuji then rescued again from its steep slopes just days later because he returned to find his phone, according to media reports. Police told AFP ...

Japanese authorities have issued guidance on how the public should respond if the famous Mount Fuji volcano, near Tokyo, were to erupt. Experts recommend sheltering at home and maintaining a two ...

Alpinist Ken Noguchi said tighter restrictions are needed to protect Mount Fuji from overtourism, including a much higher mandatory fee to climb the mountain. Born in Boston in 1973, Noguchi ...

A Chinese national had to be rescued twice in one week from Mount Fuji after he returned to the mountain peak to collect his phone. The 27-year-old student living in Japan was rescued for the ...