CNN correspondent, Diana Magnay, and her team from the Tokyo bureau will scale Fuji with a Google Maps team.
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CNN correspondent, Diana Magnay, and her team from the Tokyo bureau will scale Fuji with a Google Maps team.
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Magnay tries on one of the Google camera backpacks as the team prepares to climb Mount Fuji to survey the route.
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Magnay tries on one of the Google camera backpacks as the team prepares to climb Mount Fuji to survey the route.
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A remote-controlled "octocopter" belonging to the CNN team takes to the skies for an aerial shot of the mountain trail.
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A remote-controlled "octocopter" belonging to the CNN team takes to the skies for an aerial shot of the mountain trail.
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The spectaculer view down the mountain as the expedition team makes its way up the trail.
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The spectaculer view down the mountain as the expedition team makes its way up the trail.
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Team Tokyo rest at the first base station on the 3,776-meter peak. Each, year an estimated 300,000 people make the climb.
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Team Tokyo rest at the first base station on the 3,776-meter peak. Each, year an estimated 300,000 people make the climb.
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The team begins to climb above the clouds.
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The team begins to climb above the clouds.
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Climbers have a narrow window to make the Fuji ascent -- from July 1 to late August. Despite its steep slopes, the mountain can be climbed relatively easily, though the weather is notoriously unpredictable.
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Climbers have a narrow window to make the Fuji ascent -- from July 1 to late August. Despite its steep slopes, the mountain can be climbed relatively easily, though the weather is notoriously unpredictable.
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The 3,250-meter mark -- almost there ...
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The 3,250-meter mark -- almost there ...
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Our cameraman, Hide, gives some perspective on how steep the slopes of Mount Fuji are.
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Our cameraman, Hide, gives some perspective on how steep the slopes of Mount Fuji are.
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... 3,350 meters up. Just over an hour to go to the summit.
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... 3,350 meters up. Just over an hour to go to the summit.
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