Mount Fuji is a UNESCO World heritage site, a world-famous landmark and an icon of Japan. But it has also become a “trash mountain” overcrowded by millions of tourists. To try and bring more ...

Scorching summer temperatures in Japan lingered into October. Japan's Mount Fuji has finally regained its signature snowcap following a record-breaking period during which its peak remained bare.

TOKYO — Japan’s iconic Mt. Fuji, known for its snowcap forming around this time of year, is still snowless in November for the first time in 130 years, presumably because of the unusually warm ...

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 ...

A Chinese national had to be rescued for the second time in four days after experiencing sickness Getty A student from China was rescued twice from Japan’s Mount Fuji in just four days after he ...

A university student from China had to be rescued twice in four days while climbing Mount Fuji during the off-season - after he returned to the mountain peak to retrieve his mobile phone.

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 said Monday.

A man has been rescued from Mount Fuji twice in one week, after returning to the Japanese peak to try and retrieve his phone. The man in his twenties, who has not been named, was airlifted off ...

People are strongly advised against climbing Mount Fuji in the off-season (Picture: DoctorEgg) A university student had to be rescued twice in four days from Mount Fuji in the off-season — after ...