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,

A student airlifted from near the peak of Mount Fuji returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities said.