3 climbers dead after falling from mountain ridge in central Japan

Seven climbers who were roped together fell from a 2,600-meter mountain ridge in central Japan on Sunday, leaving three dead and four with non-life threatening injuries, police said.The incident occurred on the south ridge of Mt. Amida in the Yatsugatake mountain range straddling Nagano and Yamanashi prefectures. The death of two men and a woman was confirmed after all seven were taken off the mountain, police said.One of the climbers told medical workers at a hospital in Nagano Prefecture that "the climber at the front slipped, then everybody fell off the ridge," the hospital said.The clim…READ FULL ARTICLE