{"id":323517,"date":"2026-03-11T04:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/323517\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:01:15","slug":"nz-man-seriously-injured-in-reported-400m-fall-on-japans-mt-fuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/323517\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ man seriously injured in reported 400m fall on Japan&#8217;s Mt Fuji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A New Zealand man has been seriously injured alongside a Swedish woman after the pair reportedly fell around 400m while climbing Japan&#8217;s Mount Fuji while the mountain was closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">According to Japanese outlet Asahi, the Fujinomiya Police department received a report on March 9 of two foreign climbers falling near the seventh station on the Fujinomiya Trail of Mount Fuji, which is closed at this time year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The pair, a 51-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, were airlifted to hospital, with the fire department saying they fell around 400m down the mountain, Asahi reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">All four trails leading to the 3776m summit of Mount Fuji are closed to the public outside of the summer climbing season, which ended on September 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The closure was due to severe weather conditions, and the lack of first-aid stations or mountain huts if an accident were to occur, read the Fujisan Climb website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;During the off-season, temperatures are usually below freezing, and from November to April, they often fall below 14F (-10C), making conditions very dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed it was aware of reports that a New Zealander had been injured in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Zealand man has been seriously injured alongside a Swedish woman after the pair reportedly fell around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,2300,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-323517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-asia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}