He was 27 when he first climbed Mt. Fuji. Soon after, he took a job at a mountain lodge and began to work as a guide. Passang led climbers to the summit of Nepal's Island Peak. Passang says the ...
Fuji-Kawaguchiko’s roughly 700 lodging facilities accept at least 2 million overnight visitors a year, the most among the municipalities around Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture, according to ...
20 a plan to cap the number of Mount Fuji climbers at 4,000 per day and ... requests from alarmed local authorities and mountain lodge officials for the prefectural government to disclose the ...
Fuji, the conical mountain that has long symbolized ... forbidden to enter except for those who have reservations in a mountain lodge. The prefecture emphasizes that the measures are aimed at ...