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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers climbing Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier.

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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers on Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier.

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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers on Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier.

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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers (R bottom to C) climbing Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier.

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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers (R bottom to C) climbing Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier.

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Police recover bodies of 4 men hit by avalanche in Gifu

TAKAYAMA, Japan - The three survivors of a avalanche that killed four climbers from two mountain-climbing groups on Mt. Yarigatake in Gifu Prefecture earlier this week descend the mountain unaided on Jan. 2. From extreme right: Yutaka Takeuchi, 38, of a mountaineering group from Tokyo, and Motoo Suzuki, 47, and Miyoko Nagase, 30, both from a mountaineering group in Tokushima. The seven climbers were sleeping inside two nearby tents on a 2,000-meter-high slope of Mt. Yarigatake when the avalanche struck at around 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, local officials say. The bodies of the four climbers were recovered earlier Jan. 2.

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(CORRECTED) Police recover bodies of 4 men hit by avalanche

TAKAYAMA, Japan - The three survivors of a avalanche that killed four climbers from two mountain-climbing groups on Mt. Yarigatake in Gifu Prefecture earlier this week descend the mountain unaided on Jan. 2. From extreme right: Yutaka Takeuchi, 38, of a mountaineering group from Tokyo, and Motoo Suzuki, 47, and Miyoko Nagase, 30, both from a mountaineering group in Tokushima. The seven climbers were sleeping inside two nearby tents on a 2,000-meter-high slope of Mt. Yarigatake when the avalanche struck at around 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, local officials say. The bodies of the four climbers were recovered earlier Jan. 2. (Kyodo)

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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers on Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier. (Kyodo)

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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers climbing Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier. (Kyodo)

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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers (R bottom to C) climbing Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier. (Kyodo)

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Search efforts continue in Mt. Ontake eruption

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers (R bottom to C) climbing Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 2, 2014, checking to see if any other climbers are still on the mountain after 47 climbers have been confirmed dead in an eruption of the 3,067-meter volcano five days earlier. (Kyodo)