Even seasoned hikers find the off-season treacherous. Hut closures, removed signage, and the absence of medical stations make ...

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

On Saturday, he returned to the mountain’s Fujinomiya trail about 3,000 meters (nearly 10,000 feet) above sea level to look ...

A vacation to Japan can be anything you want it to be, and a journey to the birth place of wasabi comes with ice cream, hot ...

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

It's a fairly common experience to leave your phone in a regrettable location. It's somewhat less common for that location to ...

TAGS: Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers lining up for a photo at the Kengamine summit of Mt Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain, as the climbing season reaches its ...

People planning to visit Mt. Fuji will be required to wear appropriate climbing gear, the local government hosting the mountain's most popular trail said, as it begins accepting reservations next week ...

The Yamanashi Prefectural Government said Thursday that it will begin accepting online reservations for climbing Mount Fuji from the prefecture ... people from climbing Japan's tallest mountain ...

Park fees that run to hundreds of US dollars have long been charged to people wishing to climb Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro ... Shizuoka prefecture to climb Japan’s sacred and most ...

The Mt. Takao cable car departs from Kiyotaki Station at the mountain's base and climbs a steep slope—at 31 degrees 18 minutes, Japan's steepest—covering roughly 1 km in just 6 minutes to Takaosan ...