Officials said the unnamed mountaineer was alone on the Fujinomiya trail on April 22. He had to be rescued again just four days later.

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope to search for his cellphone and was rescued for a second time just four days later,

We’ve all had our fair share of doing dumb things. We’ve all needed some help or rescuing at some point. But on Mount Fuji, a holy mountain in Japan, a young man took things to the next level. Last week,