Hakkōda Mountains disaster

When

23 Jan 1902

Kind

Event

Coordinates

40.71° N, 140.87° E

Description

Hakkōda Mountains incident: A snowstorm in the Hakkōda Mountains of northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Hakkōda Mountains disaster.

1902 mountaineering disaster in Japan

The Hakkōda Mountains disaster occurred on 23 January 1902, when 210 Imperial Japanese Army soldiers became lost in a blizzard in the Hakkōda Mountains in Aomori Prefecture in northern Honshu, Japan, en-route to Tashiro Hot Spring in the Hakkōda Mountains. The 199 deaths during a single ascent make it the most lethal disaster in the modern recorded mountaineering.

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