Mount Fuji climber is rescued twice in one week after returning for lost phone

A climber was rescued twice in one week from Japan’s Mount Fuji after he went back to search for his lost phone, police said Monday.
TOKYO — A climber was rescued twice in one week from Japan’s Mount Fuji after he went back to search for his lost phone, police said Monday.
On Sunday, rescuers carried the climber on a stretcher from a station on the Fujinomiya trail, which sits about 10,170 feet high, the Japanese news outlet Nippon TV cited the local police as saying. The man appeared to suffer from altitude sickness but was not in life-threatening condition.
Five days earlier, on April 22, the same climber called the police and was airlifted from the peak of Mount Fuji after he lost his crampons — spiky metal frames that are attached to shoes to make it easier to walk on ice and snow — and fell sick with nausea.
He then returned to the peak Saturday in a bid to retrieve his cellphone, among other personal belongings he left behind during the first hike, according to the police.
The man, who has not been publicly identified, is a 27-year-old university student and Chinese national who lives in Tokyo, police said.
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