NIIGATA (Kyodo) Two women were found frozen to death Tuesday after they and seven other climbers got lost on a mountain in Niigata Prefecture in bad weather, police said.
The accident came a day after three people climbing the Yatsugatake range in Nagano Prefecture froze to death Monday. They were not identified.
Miyoko Abe, 62, and Tamie Yasumuro, 54, were officially pronounced dead at a hospital. Police helicopters safely rescued the remaining five men and two women from 2,026-meter Mount Sennokura in the Tanigawa range by 8 a.m. The group, whose members ranged in age from 54 to 63, is from Kanagawa Prefecture.