THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 12, 2024 at 17:19 JST
Hikers climb Mount Fuji on the Fujinomiya trail in Shizuoka Prefecture on July 10, the day the route opened for the season. (Koichi Tokonami)
SHIZUOKA--Three hikers died on Mount Fuji in the two days after climbing trails opened on the Shizuoka Prefecture side, according to police.
A male climber was found collapsed after 2 p.m. on July 10 on the Fujinomiya trail near the 3,776-meter summit. The man, in his 70s, is believed to have fallen from a rocky slope near the mountaintop.
Another climber, believed to be in his 60s, was found motionless at the original seventh station on the same trail the following day at around 4:30 a.m.
On the Gotenba trail, a hiker was discovered slumped over between the eighth station and the summit at 5:10 p.m. on July 10.
A different hiker found the climber, a 77-year-old man from Komae, western Tokyo, and called police from a mountain hut.
These trails, along with one more in the prefecture, opened for the season on July 10. The Yoshida trail on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the mountain opened on July 1.
(This article was written by Hisashi Homma and Tomoko Adachi.)
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