Yes, so I thought that getting to the top of Fuji would be all that and a bag of chips, but turns out, once I got to the top, I just wanted to get down as fast as I could haha. It was a good experience, but honestly, nobody needs to climb it more than once. So, if you ever hear me talking about considering climbing it again, tie me up until I promise I won't climb it! haha...jk of course, but yes, please remind me of how miserable I was. I took many many doses of oxygen, but I think the atmosphere affected me worse than the others :( I felt bad holding the others up, but I wanted to pass out and worse so much. Towards the end, all I could do was focus on staring at my feet, willing them to take one step in front of the other, slow and steady. Maybe I need to do lung exercises hehe. One of my coworkers talked to every person he met going up the mountain hehe. Turned out, two of them lived in our old ministry area!! Haha anddd one of them lived in the same building as one of our friends!!! Crazy small world.
Well, here are the pictures. These pictures are not in the order I'd like them to be. The chronological order of these photos are from the bottom to the top, so look at them that way if the order matters to you :)
We were climbing down Martian terrain! :P
Purty...when the clouds and the mist disappeared, you could see the endless stretch of criss cross roads that led us down the mountain...I wanted to cry.
The crater at the top as we were starting to go down. Um, who cares, let's get off this stinking pile of rocks!
Turned out, there was a little hill yonder. I guess that was THE summit of the summit of Fuji haha. Whatever! If you look carefully, you can see a small Shinto tori gate right on the top.
The sun was starting to rise...It was a beautiful sight. It truly was amazing to see the sun rising on Japan from the top of God's creation.
Waiting for the sunrise now. It was cold! I tried to wrap my scarf around me haha. And those cup of noodles? Guess how much they were! ... a little more than $7 USD!!! We were so cold, we had to get them!! Hot cocoa and hot coffee was a little more than $4 USD...And some of us bought some of those too hehe. It was cold and who cares?!? We made it to the top!
If you look carefully, in the dark background, you can make out the shape of a Shinto tori gate. Past that was the top!!!
This part was really steep.
Yea get me that stamp! They burned it into our wooden sticks, and they cost a little more than $2 USD each...
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