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Shizuoka Weighs Registration or Rescue Fees for Off-Season Mt. Fuji Climbers
With this year's Mt. Fuji climbing season over, forestry officials in Shizuoka are preparing to consider whether off-season climbers should register with the government or pay for their own rescues.
Mt. Fuji may soon require off-season climbers to register with the government or pay for their own rescues, SoraNews24 reports. Forestry officials in Shizuoka, one of the two prefectures the mountain sits in, are getting set to take up the question now that this year's climbing season has finished.
Officials frame the ground as complicated on both sides: whether hiking Mt. Fuji outside the season is illegal is a complex question, and so is who should foot the bill when a rescue is needed.
Nothing is settled yet: officials are preparing to take up the question, and no registration rule or rescue fee is in force for the coming off-season.
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- Whether it is illegal to hike Mt. Fuji in the off-season is a complex question, and so is who should pay for it.
- This year's Mt. Fuji climbing season has finished.
- Forestry officials in Shizuoka, one of the two prefectures in which Japan's tallest mountain has a footprint, are getting set.
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