Authorities in Japan have rescued the same climber from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week. The 27-year-old man was first rescued on Tuesday after falling ill, Shizuoka ...

Japan's Mount Fuji is aeen covered with snow from a plane in March, 2013. Mount Fuji, at 12,388 feet, is Japan's highest mountain. Toru Hanai/REUTERS ...

A 27-year-old male student from China was rescued twice from Japan’s Mount Fuji within a span of four days after he reportedly returned to the mountain to retrieve his cell phone.

These were steep screw-ups. A climber was rescued from Mount Fuji twice in one week after he was airlifted off the sacred Japanese peak once — and then returned to retrieve his cellphone ...

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The Chinese university student, 27, was rescued twice in four days while climbing Mount Fuji during the off-season - after he returned to the mountain peak to retrieve his misplaced mobile phone.

Mount Fuji is covered in snow for most of the year and is an active volcano. Its trails are open from early July to September, when large crowds clamber up the mountain to see the sunrise.

FILE – Mount Fuji is viewed, Jan. 29, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file) The climber was identified only as a 27-year-old Chinese student living in Japan.

A man in his 20s was airlifted from Japan's Mount Fuji then rescued again from its steep slopes just days later because he returned to find his phone, according to media reports.