Four people were found dead on Mount Fuji on June 26, days before the official ... a 38-year-old professional rock climber, died after falling ill and losing consciousness around 11 a.m. at ...

Six people have died on Mount Fuji in just the first month of the climbing season, already exceeding the total number of fatalities last season. Two climbers died on the Yamanashi Prefecture ...

Separately, Kyodo News service said professional climber Keita Kurakami, 38, died in a hospital after ... kicks in for ...

A woman struck by falling rocks near the top of Mount Fuji died on Monday. Anna Dubrovina, a 29-year-old woman from Russia, was killed while climbing with her husband. They were about 200 meters ...

Local officials and mountaineering experts are warning against risky climbing practices on Mt. Fuji as more accidents have occurred in recent years. Four hikers died there just before the season's ...

While no official death toll was issued for the eruption ... The Hoei event was Mount Fuji’s biggest eruption in the Holocene epoch, the past 11,700 or so years of Earth’s history.