A 75-year-old man died on Aug 1 while climbing Mt Fuji on a tour, the season’s first fatality to occur on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the mountain, according to police.
The company employee from Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture, lost consciousness at around 6.30pm local time and went into cardiac arrest at the 7th Station of the Yoshida Trail.
He was taken to a hospital in Fuji-Yoshida in the prefecture where he was pronounced dead.
The man started climbing from the 5th Station at around 4.40pm with other participants of the tour and was heading toward a mountain lodge when the incident occurred, according to the police. THE JAPAN NEWS/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
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