He's spent the past 14 years working on Mt. Fuji, where he leads foreign climbers from the 5th station to the summit about 20 times a month during the summer. So far he has scaled the peak more ...

Ascending Mt. Fuji takes climbers to ten "stations" from the base to the summit, with most climbers beginning their ascent ...

The season’s first snowcap was observed on Mount Fuji on the morning of Oct ... 4 was rainy but snow was falling on the summit. Clouds blocked the view of the peak early the next day, but ...

Temperatures at the summit can be below zero Celsius in June ... The number of mishaps on Mt. Fuji is on the rise. Mountain guide Takekawa Shunji says the most important thing is to draw up ...

Three bodies have been discovered in a crater at the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak. Japanese police said on Thursday that one body has been retrieved, while two remain on the mountain.

On or after Oct. 26, a front is expected to move northward over the Japanese archipelago, bringing with it the possibility of snowfall on Mount Fuji’s summit. Should the skies be clear ...

But residents in areas with clear skies around the active volcano captured and posted pictures showing snow capping the summit. “These are photos of Mount Fuji, seen from the city hall this morning,” ...

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy.

A file photo of Mount Fuji seen without snow in September 2023 ... In 2023 snow was first seen on the summit on 5 October, according to AFP news agency. Japan had its joint hottest summer on ...

Climbers using the most popular trail on Mt. Fuji are expected to be slugged with a doubled fee of 4,000 yen ($26) from next ...

The weather agency’s office in Kofu officially confirmed the presence of snow on Mount Fuji's peak on Thursday. It could not do so on Wednesday due to clouds obstructing the view of the summit.

Sitting southwest of Tokyo, 3,776m Mount Fuji is an active volcano and Japan ... the UNESCO site each year in hopes of hiking to the summit and seeing the sunrise from its famous slopes.