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Student rescued from mountain twice in four days – after going back to find his phone

# A Chinese student who was airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji had to be saved a second time just four days later. The 27-year-old climber made an emergency call after getting altitude sickness on the mountain, about three-thousand metres above sea level. But four days later, police received another call when he returned to look for his phone. Another climber found him after he apparently developed altitude sickness for a second time. There is no penalty for rescues, but the case prompted calls for him to be charged, at least for his second rescue.