As I was hiking with a friend in Poway for this week’s column, I began to fully appreciate how nice it is to have a distraction from difficult tasks. We were heading up a steep grade toward one of the ...

JAPAN — Faced with the first steep incline on the Yoshida Trail that leads to Mount Fuji’s summit, Daiki Nishikawa dramatically steadies his pace to less than 40 steps per minute. Dodging clumps of ...

November is just a few days away, but Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji remains snowless, marking the latest date without a snowcap since records began 130 years ago. The peaks of Japan’s highest mountain are ...

Snow is usually covering Mount Fuji's iconic peak by this time of year. One of the most iconic active volcanoes in the world is missing a major aspect of its famous view: snow. Mount Fuji, a ...