A record 3,111 people became stranded on Japanese mountains last year amid the continued popularity of mountaineering and a surge in foreign tourists seeking to scale peaks they are unfamiliar with, a police report showed Thursday.The total was up 182 from the previous year, while those that died or went missing also hit a record, up 35 to 354, the National Police Agency report said. Both figures were the highest since 1961, when the agency began compiling the data.With the rise in inbound tourism in recent years, the number of foreign climbers stranded grew to 121, a 2.8-fold increase from…READ FULL ARTICLE
