http://blog.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/2009/06/climbing-photographs-of-mount-fuji/ Thoughts of a Tokyo, Japan-based editorial corporate portrait assignments photographer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:18:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/2009/06/climbing-photographs-of-mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Damon Coulter Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:11:32 +0000 http://blog.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/?p=832#comment-399 Great, was it the first time you`d done it? And out of season too, so much better, though the in season experience is something uniquely Japanese too what with the queues everywhere, megaphones directing in the dark, head torches bobbing, oxygen bottles hissing, bells jangling, group callesthenics at Go gome stretching, pilgrims and pretty girls plodding up (and dusting down); and vending machines glowing out of the mist as we strive for Goraiko sunrises shared with Obattlions on the slopes that are not big enough for the two thousand of us. I`d read that the snow was unusually heavy for this time of year and it looks like it in the photographs too but well done. It is a great mountain and you can now claim one more thing in your Japanese canon (and Canon) that will impress the locals, most of whom seem never to have done it and would never dream of doing out of season. Damon Great, was it the first time you`d done it? And out of season too, so much better, though the in season experience is something uniquely Japanese too what with the queues everywhere, megaphones directing in the dark, head torches bobbing, oxygen bottles hissing, bells jangling, group callesthenics at Go gome stretching, pilgrims and pretty girls plodding up (and dusting down); and vending machines glowing out of the mist as we strive for Goraiko sunrises shared with Obattlions on the slopes that are not big enough for the two thousand of us.
I`d read that the snow was unusually heavy for this time of year and it looks like it in the photographs too but well done. It is a great mountain and you can now claim one more thing in your Japanese canon (and Canon) that will impress the locals, most of whom seem never to have done it and would never dream of doing out of season.
Damon

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