A group of seven men and women fell while climbing snowy Mount Amida in the central Japan prefecture of Nagano on Sunday morning.
A group of seven men and women fell while climbing snowy Mount Amida in the central Japan prefecture of Nagano on Sunday morning.
All seven were rescued by helicopter, but two men and one woman were later confirmed dead, Nagano prefectural police sources said.
The dead climbers were architect Tsuneo Nakazawa, 63, of Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, corporate employee Yasuo Kameishi, 48, of Kobe, also Hyogo, and temporary worker Kikuko Yamashita, 39, of Kyoto.
Of the other four, a 47-year-old male corporate employee of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, sustained a bone fracture, and three male and female climbers between 40 and 56 were slightly injured.
