A 44-year-old Japanese man from Hyogo Prefecture died after falling down 200 – 300 meters while descending Mount Fuji

On the 29th, a 44-year-old Japanese man from Hyogo Prefecture fell to his death while descending Mount Fuji in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture.

According to police, the fire department received a call around noon on the 29th near the new seventh station of the Fujinomiya trailhead of Mount Fuji reporting that "a man had fallen 200-300 meters from about 500 meters above the fifth station of Mount Fuji."

The person who fell was a 44-year-old man from Kamikawa Town, Hyogo Prefecture. He was found by a Shizuoka Prefectural Police mountain rescue team about four hours later, but was already in cardiac arrest. He was transported to the fifth station, where he was later confirmed dead.

The man had started climbing with two friends on the 28th, and was on his way down when he fell.