On a freezing day, Tetsu Shiohara, a stage 4 cancer patient, attempted to climb Mount Fuji alone, without winter gear or ...

More often than not, this is followed with, “There’s a saying, ‘A wise person climbs Mount Fuji once, only a fool climbs it twice.’" I wonder what that makes me. A super fool? No ...

FUJI-YOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture--Local authorities have failed to take effective measures to curb the hordes of hikers climbing Mount Fuji, which was named a World Heritage site a decade ago ...

There is an old Japanese saying that to climb Fuji once is wise, to climb it twice is to proclaim oneself a fool.” ...

Back in Japan, Mount Fuji is usually covered in snow for most of the year, until the summer, when the snowless mountain ...