1 Fuji climber's enemy, altitude sickness

About 200,000 climbers from the Mt. Fuji 5th Station (Yoshidaguchi) are annually annually, but one out of every three people is said to have altitude sickness. There are numerous countermeasures such as taking water as a countermeasure against altitude sickness, inflating balloons, etc. There are no effective counterparts for everyone, and ultimately you will not get cured if you do not go down. It seems that there are more things. So as not to altitude sickness of high 2,305m 5th Station with a time of height accustom the body (advanced adaptation) it is important.

2 Comfortable 'Advanced adaptation' in the Mt. Fuji 5th Station

5th Station there are some people who start climbing in about 30 minutes just to organize the luggage, but 2 to 3 hours is highly recommended for adapting. Time is wasteful! Although it may be thought, let's do preparation of not only luggage but also body preparation firmly so that we can not finish with a bitter experiences of climbing Mt. Fuji climbing altogether on the way and retiring on the way. Cold wind and also in the evening in the summer hit on the cheek 5th Station will be chilled the body and are two to three hours outside in. Unjokaku , the only hotel in Mt. Fuji 5th Station is the only capsule hotel in private rooms available for breaks. Let's take a good rest and let the body become Mt. Fuji specification.

Let's start preparing for 3 units as well as equipment

When both the body and equipment are ready, submit a climbing planning plan, I will leave for safety by praying for safety at Otagi Shrine in the Mt. Fuji 5th Station . I think that I can walk lightly at first at the end of highly acclimatized, but since I have physical strength, walking slowly at about half of the usual rate, the probability of avoiding altitude sickness rises I will. It is recommended that the images are pulled out more and more from the group that started climbing at the same timing. Slowly, as you climb at a constant pace, the second half will gradually leave the previous group steadily. Let's enjoy comfortably climbing Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan.