JAPAN — Faced with the first steep incline on the Yoshida Trail that leads to Mount Fuji’s summit, Daiki Nishikawa dramatically steadies his pace to less than 40 steps per minute. Dodging clumps of ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Starting in the summer of 2025, Japan will double the cost of climbing Mount Fuji. Previously, climbers were charged 2,000 yen, approximately Rp220,000. This fee will now increase ...

Japan cruised to victory to become the first champion in boulder at the newly created Nations Grand Finale in sport climbing ...

TOKYO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Host nation Japan aim to hit new heights in competitive climbing when the sport makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo with their maximum of four athletes launching an assault on ...

Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, business had never been better for Japan’s climbing gyms. “The inclusion of climbing in the Olympics brought a lot of good things,” explains Yuji Hirayama, a ...

Japanese search-and-rescue personnel in separate recent instances rescued two U.S. military members in distress while climbing Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain. The first rescue involved an ...