TOKYO: Police said Tuesday that four South Korean climbers have died apparently after developing hypothermia in bad weather in Japan’s Central Alps.
Rescuers earlier found the bodies of three of the climbers Tuesday on a popular mountain trail at an elevation of nearly 3,000 meters (9,900 feet) connecting two mountains, Mt. Hinokio and Mt. Hoken, Nagano prefectural police official Akira Ito said. The area is part of a mountain range known as the Central Alps.
A fourth man was later found dead about 100 meters (300 feet) below a trail he apparently fell off, Ito said.
4 climbers dead on Japan Alps
