The Yamanashi prefectural government hopes to discourage climbing during the off-season Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

The call came after a Chinese student, who was rescued twice from Mount Fuji, said he went back the second time to try to ...

This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — ...

FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture--Park rangers on Japan's sacred Mount Fuji officially started this year's climbing season about 90 minutes before sunrise on Monday, levying new trail fees and ...

KOFU--The Yamanashi prefectural government announced on Dec. 20 a plan to cap the number of Mount ... to Japan’s tallest mountain at 3,776 meters in elevation during this year’s climbing ...

At 18.10, the male climber had to contact the emergency number 110 in Japan because he admitted he could no longer walk. He ...

Fifteen years ago, Myer suggested to his good friend and skiing buddy Peter Yates, famed for his work with Macquarie Bank and then the Packer, Myer and Fox families, that he hike the Milford. Yates ...

I have a thing for ferries. Not the stomach-churning Devon to France crossings as a kid in the UK, bunged in the back of a Ford Escort with the cornflakes and tea bags. But the little ferries that ...