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Bird-shaped patch of snow on Mt. Fuji

Bird-shaped patch of snow on Mt. Fuji

Photo shows bird-shaped patch of snow (red circle) on the Yamanashi Prefecture-side slope of Mt. Fuji on April 25, 2025. The 3,776-meter mountain straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers on the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers walking around the crater of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers lining up to take a photo on the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows a weather station on the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows a weather station on the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers flocking around mountain lodges on the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season peaks. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers flocking around mountain lodges on the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season peaks. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers lining up to take a photo on the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers lining up to take a photo on the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers on the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers on the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers walking around the crater of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers on the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers on the summit of the Fujinomiya trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, seen from the Yamanashi prefectural side. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers walking around the crater of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows climbers lining up to take a photo on the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows the Kengamine summit (background) and the summit of the Yoshida trail of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, as its climbing season reaches its peak. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season

Mt. Fuji climbing season

Climbers walk up on Mt. Fuji on June 30, 2024, as the summer climbing season for the highest mountain in Japan is set to officially begin the following day, with the opening of a route on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the 3,776-meter volcano.

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Bird-shaped patch of snow on Mt. Fuji

Bird-shaped patch of snow on Mt. Fuji

Photo shows bird-shaped patch of snow (red circle) on the Yamanashi Prefecture-side slope of Mt. Fuji on April 25, 2024. The 3,776-meter mountain straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Bird-shaped snow on Mt. Fuji

Bird-shaped snow on Mt. Fuji

Photo shows bird-shaped patch of snow on the Yamanashi Prefecture-side slope of Mt. Fuji on May 2, 2023. The 3,776-meter mountain straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura begins climbing Mt. Fuji

90-year-old adventure skier Miura begins climbing Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese adventure skier Yuichiro Miura is seated in a special wheelchair for mountain use as he begins his ascent of the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji from the fifth station on the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Aug. 29, 2023. Miura, who skied down the highest mountain in Japan with a parachute in 1966, reached the peak of Mt. Everest three times as a senior at the age of 70, 75 and 80.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura begins climbing Mt. Fuji

90-year-old adventure skier Miura begins climbing Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese adventure skier Yuichiro Miura is seated in a special wheelchair for mountain use as he begins his ascent of the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji from the fifth station on the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Aug. 29, 2023. Miura, who skied down the highest mountain in Japan with a parachute in 1966, reached the peak of Mt. Everest three times as a senior at the age of 70, 75 and 80.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese adventure skier Yuichiro Miura (C) is seated in a special wheelchair for mountain use to ascend the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji from the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Aug. 29, 2023. Miura, who skied down the highest mountain in Japan with a parachute in 1966, reached the peak of Mt. Everest three times as a senior at the age of 70, 75 and 80.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese adventure skier Yuichiro Miura (C) ascends the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji from the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Aug. 29, 2023. Miura, who skied down the highest mountain in Japan with a parachute in 1966, reached the peak of Mt. Everest three times as a senior at the age of 70, 75 and 80.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese adventure skier Yuichiro Miura (front, R) ascends the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji from the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Aug. 29, 2023. Miura, who skied down the highest mountain in Japan with a parachute in 1966, reached the peak of Mt. Everest three times as a senior at the age of 70, 75 and 80.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura begins climbing Mt. Fuji

90-year-old adventure skier Miura begins climbing Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese adventure skier Yuichiro Miura (front) begins climbing the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji from the fifth station on the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Aug. 29, 2023. Miura, who skied down the highest mountain in Japan with a parachute in 1966, reached the peak of Mt. Everest three times as a senior at the age of 70, 75 and 80.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

90-year-old adventure skier Miura on Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese adventure skier Yuichiro Miura ascends the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji from the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Aug. 29, 2023. Miura, who skied down the highest mountain in Japan with a parachute in 1966, reached the peak of Mt. Everest three times as a senior at the age of 70, 75 and 80.

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90-year-old adventure skier Miura begins climbing Mt. Fuji

90-year-old adventure skier Miura begins climbing Mt. Fuji

Ninety-year-old Japanese adventure skier Yuichiro Miura (R) begins climbing the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji from the fifth station on the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Aug. 29, 2023. Miura, who skied down the highest mountain in Japan with a parachute in 1966, reached the peak of Mt. Everest three times as a senior at the age of 70, 75 and 80.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows climbers walking on a route leading up to the summit of the 3,776 meter Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a route leading up to the summit of the 3,776 meter Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Mt. Fuji

Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows climbers walking on a route leading up to the summit of the 3,776 meter Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji reopens for climbers

Mt. Fuji reopens for climbers

Climbers walk near the fifth station of Mt. Fuji on July 1, 2023, as the summer climbing season for the highest mountain in Japan officially begins the same day, with the opening of a route on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the 3,776-meter volcano.

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Bird-shaped snow on Mt. Fuji

Bird-shaped snow on Mt. Fuji

Photo shows bird-shaped patch of snow on the Yamanashi Prefecture-side slope of Mt. Fuji on May 2, 2023. The 3,776-meter mountain straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

TOKYO, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Mt. Fuji, a World Cultural Heritage site which stands between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, is covered with a thin layer of snow for the first time this season on Oct. 11, 2015. The first snowcap on the 3,776-meter mountain is 11 days later than average but five days earlier than last year.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a thin layer of snow on Oct. 16, 2014. Miho-no-matsubara, a seashore area lined with pine trees, is seen in the foreground. The 3,776-meter mountain got its first snowcap of the season the same day, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory said.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - Photo taken from an area in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a thin layer of snow on Oct. 16, 2014. The 3,776-meter mountain got its first snowcap of the season the same day, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory said.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

MT. FUJI, Japan - Mt. Fuji provides a vantage point of the sunrise through clouds on July 1, 2014, as the climbing season began that day for the 3,776-meter mountain straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures. The mountain was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site the previous year.

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Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

Mt. Fuji climbing season begins

MT. FUJI, Japan - Climbers at Mt. Fuji photograph a sunrise through clouds on July 1, 2014, as the climbing season began that day for the 3,776-meter mountain straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures. The mountain was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site the previous year.

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Plans formalized for Mt. Fuji admission fee

Plans formalized for Mt. Fuji admission fee

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2013 shows Mt. Fuji, seen from Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture. Local prefectures officially adopted on Jan. 22, 2014, plans to set a voluntary 1,000 yen admission fee for climbers of the 3,776-meter volcanic mountain, starting in the summer of 2014.

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UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - Children celebrate in front of a painting of Mt. Fuji on an outer wall of the municipal government office of Fujiyoshida, a Yamanashi Prefecture city located north of the 3,776-meter mountain on June 22, 2013, after the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO decided to inscribe Japan's iconic mountain on the U.N. agency's prestigious World Heritage List.

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UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

FUJINOMIYA, Japan - People celebrate in Fujinomiya, a Shizuoka Prefecture city located southwest of Mt. Fuji, on June 22, 2013, after the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO decided to inscribe the 3,776-meter mountain on the U.N. agency's prestigious World Heritage List.

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UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - Shigeru Horiuchi (L seated), the mayor of Fujiyoshida, a Yamanashi Prefecture city located north of Mt. Fuji, smiles while being surrounded by reporters in his office on June 22, 2013, as he hears over the phone that the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO decided to inscribe the 3,776-meter mountain on the U.N. agency's prestigious World Heritage List.

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UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - Shigeru Horiuchi, the mayor of Fujiyoshida, a Yamanashi Prefecture city located north of Mt. Fuji, puts up a poster celebrating the inscription of the 3,776-meter mountain on the U.N. agency's prestigious World Heritage List in his office on June 22, 2013.

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UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

UNESCO formally names Mt. Fuji as World Heritage site

FUJINOMIYA, Japan - People celebrate in Fujinomiya, a Shizuoka Prefecture city located southwest of Mt. Fuji, on June 22, 2013, after the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO decided to inscribe the 3,776-meter mountain on the U.N. agency's prestigious World Heritage List.

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Mt. Fuji to become World Heritage site

Mt. Fuji to become World Heritage site

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2013, shows Mt. Fuji. The 3,776-meter mountain, the highest peak in Japan, has been recommended for registration as a World Heritage site by an advisory panel to UNESCO, the government said on April 30.

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Mt. Fuji to become World Heritage site

Mt. Fuji to become World Heritage site

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 1, 2013, shows Mt. Fuji. The 3,776-meter mountain, the highest peak in Japan, has been recommended for registration as a World Heritage site by an advisory panel to UNESCO, the government said on April 30.

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