Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows mountain lodges in the village of Otari, Nagano Prefecture. A group of six men, from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, in southwestern Japan, were found collapsed near 2,932-meter Mt. Shiroumadake in the prefecture by another climber the same day and later confirmed dead due to hypothermia. They had gone missing after leaving Tsugaike Huette (L) in the morning the previous day.

Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows Mt. Shiroumadake in Nagano Prefecture. A group of six men, from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, were found collapsed near the 2,932-meter mountain by another climber the same day and later confirmed dead due to hypothermia.

Mountain guide given suspended 3-yr sentence for 4 climbers' deaths

Mountain guide given suspended 3-yr sentence for 4 climbers' deaths

File photo taken in January 2015 shows the 2,932-meter Mt. Shirouma straddling the border between Toyama and Nagano prefectures in Japan. The Nagano District Court on April 20, 2015 found a mountain guide, Kazuhiro Tagami, guilty of professional negligence resulting in death and sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for five years, after four mountaineers in his care died on the mountain in Japan's Northern Alps in October 2006. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows Mt. Shiroumadake in Nagano Prefecture. A group of six men, from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, were found collapsed near the 2,932-meter mountain by another climber the same day and later confirmed dead due to hypothermia. (Kyodo)

Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

Climbers die in Japan's Northern Alps

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows mountain lodges in the village of Otari, Nagano Prefecture. A group of six men, from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, in southwestern Japan, were found collapsed near 2,932-meter Mt. Shiroumadake in the prefecture by another climber the same day and later confirmed dead due to hypothermia. They had gone missing after leaving Tsugaike Huette (L) in the morning the previous day. (Kyodo)