Police in Japan say that climber who was airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week ...

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

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

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.

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

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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 ...

Last year, Japanese officials urged Mount Fuji climbers to be more careful after ... three people died within 24 hours on one side of the mountain, in Shizuoka Prefecture on July 10.

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week returned ... phone and other belongings left behind, Shizuoka prefectural police said.

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week returned ... and other belongings left behind, Shizuoka prefectural police said.

Pexels TOKYO: A man in his 20s was airlifted from Japan's Mount Fuji then rescued again from ... was taken to hospital," a police spokesman in Shizuoka region said on Monday.