CNN
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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 prefectural police told CNN on Monday. He had to be rescued again on Saturday after returning to the mountain to retrieve his belongings, including a cell phone, that he had left behind, they said.
On Tuesday, the climber — a Chinese college student currently living in Japan — reached the summit, which sits at 3,776 meters (12,388 feet), before experiencing altitude sickness.
On Saturday, he was rescued from an altitude of more than 3,000…
