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Mount Fuji is a 12,389-foot climb done in one overnight push.
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Most people climb Fuji from the 5th Station at 2,305 meters, sleep a few hours in a hut near 3,400 meters, and push to the 3,776 meter summit for sunrise. That is roughly 1,500 meters of gain in a single overnight, the exact rapid-ascent profile the CDC links to acute mountain sickness. The mountain looks like a long day hike, but the air at the top holds about a third less oxygen than at sea level, and many climbers feel it as headache, nausea, and the dizziness that turns people back at the 8th station. Acetazolamide compresses the body's three to five day acclimatization into one. Started the day before you climb, it is the difference between watching the sunrise from the crater rim and watching it from a hut window.
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- The standard climb starts at the 5th Station around 2,305 meters, has you sleep in a hut near 3,400 meters, and pushes to the 3,776 meter summit before dawn. That is about 1,500 meters of gain in a single overnight, which is the fast-ascent profile the CDC associates with acute mountain sickness. The summit is well above the 2,500 meter threshold the CDC uses, and the overnight hut altitude already crosses the risk line. Acetazolamide compresses the three to five day acclimatization the CDC describes into one, started the day before you climb. It is the most reliable way to keep day one from ending at the 8th station.
Fuji climbs to 12,389 feet overnight. Start the medication that gets you to the rim.
Get the acetazolamide the CDC recommends for ascending above 2,500 meters, prescribed without the appointment.