38+ Have People Died Climbing Mount Fuji Pics. 10, with the official website. They were not killed directly from the eruption, but of starvation because of the devastation to their crops and farmland.
The iconic peak, which has inspired japanese art the height of mount fuji is 12.390 feet (3776 meters) and there are different ways to climb it.
Climbing mount fuji is very popular not only among japanese but also foreign tourists, who seem to some mountain huts open a few days before the start of the official climbing season and/or quite a few people who climb mount fuji, suffer from altitude sickness. Mount fuji's first snowcap of the season is seen on oct. Police advise people not to ascend the mountain at other times as snow makes it particularly dangerous, but there is no law against climbing out of season. Fuji, including info on routes, maps, videos, transport access, traffic stats, weather, and climber stories.