What was the highest mountain you ever climbed and how was the experience?
What was the highest mountain you ever climbed and how was the experience?
Maybe include altitude in both metres and feet, otherwise 80% of comments will be about that whole discussion.
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I climbed Mt Fuji. It was pretty cool. 3,776 meters / 12,388 ft.
I brought a pulse oximeter out of curiosity. 98% SPO2 at the little base town where we were dropped off. 82% at one of the stops, compared to 95% of the woman working inside. 71% at the peak.
The peak was terrifying. I went up the Yoshida trail and down the Gotemba trail. The Yoshida trail is most populated. Plenty of people hiking and little stops up the trail that will brand your hiking stick for a few hundred yen each ($1-3).
Once at the peak, we had to walk around at the top through a storm to find the Gotemba trail. The storm was brutally cold. I remember there was a guy wearing his girlfriend's dress cus it was the only dry clothes they had while trying to take shelter.
The clouds lingered the rest of the way down. It was insanely foggy.
Overall it was cool. I had the chance to hike it again the next year and opted out.
I had the chance to hike it again the next year and opted out.
There's a saying here that anyone who lives or comes to Japan and doesn't climb Fuji once is a fool, and anyone who climbs it again is also a fool. On that note, I've climbed it multiple times :P First time was 4 hours before a typhoon hit, got to the top and no exaggeration, honestly felt like I was going to be blown off. Stayed there 5mins and then damn near ran down the Yoshida trail back to the 5th station. Second time was perfect, almost 100% clear weather, and it was amazing
Haha I wish I had climbed it the second time. It was crystal clear.
The first time I hiked it, it took us around 14 hours total because of the storm. I almost cried when I saw the noodle shop at the base of the Gotemba trail after almost 6 hours of walking down in scree. My quads were about to fall off my bones.
I didn't have it in me to do that again.
People talking about Fuji but not whether they hiked at night or day. Hiked 10pm roughly to try and summit just before dawn. So amazingly epic. By about 90 percent up just tons of shooting stars and the Milky Way so vivid. Clear night in early autumn near the end of the season.