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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Student rescued from Mount Fuji returns to find lost phone — gets rescued again

A Chinese national had to be rescued twice in one week from Mount Fuji after he returned to the mountain peak to collect his phone.

The 27-year-old student living in Japan was rescued for the first time on Tuesday by a helicopter while on the Fujinomiya trail, about 3,000m above sea level on the mountain's Shizuoka Prefecture side, news reports said.

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