🔶A 7-year-old son was left alone on Mount Fuji; the father continued the climb

A man who had left his 7-year-old son, tired and alone, on Mount Fuji in Japan so that he could continue the route himself along with his older child was reprimanded by police.

According to the Asahi television network, the boy was seen sitting alone in a hut at an altitude of about 2,500 meters above sea level, halfway up the route to Japan’s highest mountain.

Local Japanese police said the boy was hiking with his father and older brother, and when he became tired and no longer wanted to keep hiking, his father told him to wait there.

When police officers were able to contact the father, he had climbed to the eighth station—three hours of walking higher than where he had left his son. Police ordered him to turn back, and after they brought him again to his son, they reprimanded him for leaving a child alone on an active volcano.

Police told the media: “Leaving a child is not acceptable, even if it means having to give up the shared ascent to the summit.”