2nd missing climber found in critical condition on Mt Fuji

Friday 24th July, 12:32 PM JST

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Jim_Swanson at 08:59 AM JST - 24th July

I climbed the Yoshida route on the same day. The weather really deteriorated just after dawn and we abandoned the ascent at the eighth station due to high winds. It was duck and cover every couple of minutes with small stones flying around like missiles.
taj at 09:09 AM JST - 24th July

Deaths on Fuji are rare, no? Let's hope there's still a chance somehow Nakamura made it down far enough to hae survived since Sunday.
Apsara at 09:50 AM JST - 24th July

Not that rare- there's a few every year. The rain and fairly cool temps this week in Kanto make it unlikely the other guy has survived if he has been on the mountain this whole time.
Xinef at 11:24 AM JST - 24th July

The title... it... hurts my brain...
fds at 11:42 AM JST - 24th July

climbing fuji is no walk in the park. the only reason more people don't die is that there are so many that most of the time you can get help. i wonder why he didn't have a cell phone or if he did why it didn't work?
GlobeTrotter at 12:49 PM JST - 24th July

They have found Nakamura dead today... RIP
ulysses at 02:23 PM JST - 24th July

I climbed Mt Fuji on Saturday night and came back on Sunday morning. The weather was bad, but not bad enough to kill. With the number of people around, difficult to understand how they got separated. Something needs to be explained here.
timorborder at 02:42 PM JST - 24th July

I am inclined to question whether going up Mt. Fuji actually constitutes "mountain climbing" considering how easy it is. That being said, however, nature always has a knack of getting even with those who disregard basic hiking rules, the first of which is not to be unprepared. Specifically, considering the risks of hypothermia, only a headcase would go up an exposed mountain like Fuji without the necessary windproof/waterproof gear. These guys obviously ignored such basic precautions, as those folks did in Hokkaido last week.
GlobeTrotter at 02:57 PM JST - 24th July

Seems like ir was the wind that blew the off track, one of them fell over a 100m of the path
Monoflow at 03:25 PM JST - 24th July

There's nothing like exercise before and using good equipment, to climb any mountain, even if it's well pathed like Mt. Fuji. For some people it's seems it's only like a sunday trip. I live in Switzerland and every summer season, mountain patrol have to save some tourists, who's trying to climb or hike to higher places or even glacier by sneakers and shorts (>_
ichinensei at 09:40 PM JST - 24th July

I dont think they took the Kawaguchiko trail. The other trails are not so crowded and even less so on a weekday
Fadamor at 01:56 AM JST - 25th July

Sound like they need to edit the headline a second time if the 2nd climber has now been confirmed dead.
ca1ic0cat at 02:46 AM JST - 25th July

FOX says they are both dead. Pity. Why are people being so casual about mountaineering this summer? There is nothing "easy" over 8,000 feet if the weather changes. It's just sad that people don't think these things through.