A wise person climbs fuji-san once, a fool twice.
kxj:
Then, the last push to the top. This is where it got progressively more painful because there ends up being a queue on the way up for the last 2 hours due to all the tour groups. And so we shuffled and climbed along and started to feel the effects of altitude around 3,500m. Then Fuji-san decided he would make it RAIN, and not just typical rain but cold coupled with every-which-way blowing wind and near white-out conditions from fog. My hands had gone numb at this point since I was the only one without gloves and we were clinging to freezing cold boulders and railings. My borrowed rain jacket hardly worked at all since the inside was wet from sweat, and now the outside was drenched as well.
No way to go but up right??
Many congrats to Kelly for conquering Mt. Fuji! (In other news, reading that totally just pushed “climbing Mt. Fuji” to the BOTTOM of my to-do list. I am pretty much the ANTI-adrenaline-junkie)
