Father Leaves 7-Year-Old Son Alone for Hours on Mount Fuji, Warned by Japanese Police

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A worker on Japan’s highest mountain discovered the child sitting alone on a bench near the sixth station of the Fujinomiya trail at an altitude of more than 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) on Thursday.

A Japanese father on Thursday abandoned his seven-year-old son at an elevation of approximately 2,490 meters on Mount Fuji after the child expressed fatigue, proceeding to ascend to the peak with a companion.

The group had reached approximately the trail's sixth of 10 stations when the younger boy became fussy and began complaining that he was tired.