Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People climb the steep slope of Mount Fuji on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, in Japan. It takes an average hiker five to six hours to ...

A Mount Fuji climber had to be rescued twice in four days after he went back to retrieve his lost phone. The 27-year-old university student is a Chinese national who lives in Japan. He tried to climb ...

TOKYO — Those who want to climb one of the most popular trails on Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji will have to book a slot and pay a fee as crowds, littering and climbers who try to rush too fast to the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Those who want to climb one of the most popular trails on Japan's iconic Mount Fuji will have to book a slot and pay a fee as crowds, littering and climbers who try to rush too fast to ...

JAPAN — Faced with the first steep incline on the Yoshida Trail that leads to Mount Fuji’s summit, Daiki Nishikawa dramatically steadies his pace to less than 40 steps per minute. Dodging clumps of ...

According to many guide books, the most popular objective of climbing Mt. Fuji – Japan’s highest peak at 12,389 feet – is to glimpse the sunrise, or goraiko, at the summit. Goraiko originates from a ...

Halfway to the sixth station of Mount Fuji’s Subashiri trail, artillery shells could be heard exploding Monday from a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force training area in nearby Gotemba. On the last ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Those who want to climb one of ...

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FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2010 file photo, snow-covered Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776-meters tall (12,385 feet), is seen from an airplane window. Those who want to climb one of the most ...