Alpinist Ken Noguchi urgently proposes a “secret plan! Mt. Fuji is in grave danger of being stripped of its World Heritage status because it is “too dirty.
Fuji is so dirty that it has been stripped of its World Heritage status. If nothing is done, it is unlikely that the problems posed by UNESCO can be resolved - a "dramatic increase" in inbound visitors, "pollution" from garbage and exhaust gas, and "victims of bullet climbs" that never seem to end. ......
In just over five years since its registration as a World Heritage site in 2001, the number of visitors has doubled to over 5 million. Fuji, Japan’s world-class mountain, is facing a serious crisis.
Fuji is in grave danger of being stripped of its World Heritage status, and the reason is that it is “too dirty.
Fuji is the dirtiest mountain in the world,” testifies Ken Noguchi, an alpinist and author of “Mt.
In 1997, I joined a publicly recruited team of climbers from various countries to challenge Mt. Everest from the Tibetan side for the first time. When we were all cleaning up, the captain said, “Do the Japanese do the same thing in the Himalayas as they do on Mount Fuji? I asked him, and he replied, “Yes. I heard that Reinhold Messner, a superstar in the mountaineering world, said, “I’ve climbed mountains all over the world, but Mount Fuji was the dirtiest. I had only climbed in winter, so when I went to Mt. Fuji the following summer, it was indeed covered in trash. ……
The impact of this incident prompted Noguchi to begin cleaning Mt. Fuji and Mount Everest in 2000. Although some improvements have been made with the introduction of restrictions on private cars, the “pollution” of Mt. Noguchi reveals the inside story.
Fuji’s registration as a World Heritage site was actually conditional. The UNESCO advisory body has given various homework assignments, such as resolving overtourism and improving exhaust gas pollution caused by large sightseeing buses. And Yamanashi Prefecture has not actively publicized this fact. This is because strict mountain entry restrictions are indispensable to fulfill the conditions.
Restrictions on mountain entry directly lead to a decrease in the number of tourists.
In fact, some tourism operators and local leaders have voiced their concerns, saying, “If we can’t become a World Heritage site without charging an entrance fee and imposing entry restrictions, we don’t need such restrictions.
However, the weak yen has been a tailwind for the dramatic increase in the number of inbound tourists. Governor Kotaro Nagasaki (55) finally called for a press conference to state that Mt. Fuji was “in danger of being stripped” of its World Heritage registration, and decided to levy entrance fees and restrict entry to the mountain.
I have been exchanging opinions with Yamanashi Prefecture officials since before Mt. Fuji was registered as a World Heritage site, and they have always had a sense of crisis, saying, “If we don’t do something, it will be bad,” and “If the designation is withdrawn, the search for the culprits will begin. But politics would not allow it. That’s why I was surprised that the governor himself mentioned the “taboo of taboos.
