These are formed when the volcano erupts, sending lava, ash and gases into the air. They lose momentum and fall back to the earth with gravity, becoming superheated currents at between 200C and ...

Of Mount Fuji’s 10 hiking stations, the fifth (called “Gogome”) is located roughly halfway up the 3,776-meter (12,388-foot) mountain. It receives 90% of the mountain’s visitors, most whom ...