Mt. Fuji Rescuers Evacuate 99-Year-Old Hiker After Fall on 3-Day Ascent
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Updated · SoraNews24 · Jul 23
Mt. Fuji Rescuers Evacuate 99-Year-Old Hiker After Fall on 3-Day Ascent
3 articles · Updated · SoraNews24 · Jul 23
Summary
Shizuoka police rescued a 99-year-old woman near Mt. Fuji’s seventh station on July 17 after severe lower-back and hip pain left her unable to walk; she was taken to a hospital and was not in life-threatening condition.
The woman from Iwaki, Fukushima, had started from the Fujinomiya trail’s fifth station on July 15, fell earlier in the climb, rested overnight in a mountain hut, then tried to continue before stopping again.
Her companion placed the distress call around 7 a.m., and rescuers reached the pair on the Fujinomiya route, one of the main trails to the summit.
The hiker was properly equipped and had climbed Mt. Fuji multiple times before, but the incident underscored the mountain’s risks; two deaths have already been reported this summer on the same trail.