Overview
- A Nagano helicopter crew located two missing male climbers on the Jandarm rock about 550 meters west of Okuhotakadake's summit.
- Rescuers airlifted one man conscious and flew him to a hospital in Matsumoto City.
- The second man was found unconscious and stuck to frozen rock, which police said makes extraction difficult.
- Gifu Prefectural Police said the pair had planned a traverse but told a nearby mountain hut they could not move because of bad weather.
- A ground search by Gifu police was started then halted due to poor conditions, and the subsequent aerial search led to the discovery.