Mountain- and water-related accidents claimed five lives Monday, the last day of a three-day weekend when temperatures reached above 30 degrees Celsius in many parts of Japan. Also one person is listed as missing in the mountains and eight people were injured across the country. In ...
A total of 2,929 people got lost in Japan's mountains in 2016, the second-highest level on record, the National Police Agency said. Of all the cases logged, 319 people died or remain missing, down 16 from the previous year, and 1,133 were injured, down by ...
At least two people died and one was seriously injured in separate alpine accidents Sunday in Gunma and Toyama prefectures as the Golden Week holiday season entered its second day. According to the police, 73-year-old Yoshie Naganuma died at around 11:10 a.m. after sliding about ...
Locked up in 140 meters (460 feet) of ice capping a Bolivian mountain lie 18,000 years of climate history, dating back to an epoch when humans were only just learning to farm. But this precious archive of environmental change since the last Ice Age is ...
Hikers beware, Saitama might become the first prefecture in the nation to charge for helicopter mountain rescues, according to a bill submitted to the assembly.
An avalanche hit three university students on the Tateyama mountain range in Toyama Prefecture on Tuesday morning, leaving one dead and another with hypothermia, according to local authorities. The three were part of a group of six members of a mountain climbing club from the ...
A search is underway for a man believed to be Hirotaka Onodera, 23, who slipped and fell near the summit of Nepal’s Mt. Manaslu on Oct. 7.
Nearly a third of people have never heard of Mountain Day, the newest official public holiday. a survey shows.
Nearly a third of people have never heard of Mountain Day, according to a new survey, as the newest official public holiday is set to be celebrated for the first time on Thursday. In 2014, the Diet established Aug. 11 as Mountain Day to be ...
Everest is speckled with corpses. Nearly 300 people have died on the mountain in the century since climbers began trying to reach its summit. At least 100 are still on its slopes — perhaps 200. Most of the bodies are hidden in deep crevasses or ...
Two Britons and a Mexican have become the first foreigners to climb Mount Everest from the Nepali side since disasters in 2014 and 2015 killed dozens and forced mountaineers off the world's tallest peak. Briton Kenton Cool, 42, and David Liano Gonzalez, 36, of Mexico, ...
When the earthquake struck last year and thousands of tons of snow and ice and earth came crashing down the mountain, some feared the climbers might never return to Mount Everest. But despite back-to-back Everest disasters — the 2015 earthquake and a massive avalanche the ...
