Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

FILE - Mount Fuji is viewed, Jan. 29, 2021, in Tokyo. TOKYO (AP) — A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was ...

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

National Palace Museum Southern Branch associate researcher Chu Lung-hsing introduces the woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai at the museum in Chiayi County on Monday.

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities have said.

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities have said.

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities have said.

A Chinese university student who was rescued from Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji twice within four days has become the target of online ridicule and anger. The unnamed 27-year-old man, who lives in ...

In March, Japan announced it will introduce a ¥4,000 (£20) entry fee for all four main trails of Mount Fuji, set to begin this summer. The Yoshida Trail, in Yamanashi prefecture, was the only ...

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