He was first rescued on Tuesday from the Fujinomiya trail, which is nearly 3,000 meters above sea level, by helicopter.

It's a fairly common experience to leave your phone in a regrettable location. It's somewhat less common for that location to be a perilous mountain.

A student airlifted from near the peak of Mount Fuji returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities said.