On the evening of September 8th, a woman was unable to further move due to hypothermia while descending near Osunabashiri on Mount Fuji and was rescued by the Shizuoka Prefectural Police Mountain Rescue Team.
Around 11:40pm on the 8th, a 39-year-old female North Korean temporary worker residing in Higashimurayama City, Tokyo, who was descending on Osunabashiri on the Gotemba Trail on Mount Fuji, contacted police reporting that she was no longer able to move.
Three members of the prefectural police mountain rescue team headed to the rescue and found the woman. They escorted her down the mountain to the fifth station and rescued her. The woman was showing mild symptoms of altitude sickness but was not injured.
According to police, the woman set off from the Fujinomiya trailhead and reached the summit at around 10:00 a.m. on the 7th, and then began her descent via the Gotemba route, but became unable to move a little below the middle of Osunabashiri and requested rescue.
It was the woman's first time climbing Mount Fuji and she had no prior experience of mountain climbing. She started climbing with someone she met on social media, but they got separated during the climb.
by MagazineKey4532