Climbing Mt Fuji has been one of my bucket list ~ Its neither easy nor difficult ~ Standing 3776m, it is Japan's highest and most prominent mountain ~ The mountain itself may looks attractive from afar however the experience of climbing up in the early wee hours among the hundreds of equally minded hikers from across the world, are very rewarding. Its my virgin climb for Mt Fuji & im sure its gotten be a lifelong memories for me! The most popular trail is the Yoshida Trail at an altitude of 2300m, which is the starting of 5th station ~ Aug is the season for climbing hence the number of tourist and Japanese was seen preparing to start their hike too ~ ( The red torii gate is the land mark of Torii-So lodge, 2900m above sea level! ) We started our climb at noon, initially it was easy, as we get higher up, there was a few times that we literally need to climb on all four limbs before we could get ...
