{"id":60112,"date":"2026-05-05T05:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/60112\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:53:09","slug":"1-of-2-hong-kong-hikers-rescued-from-japans-northern-alps-search-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/60112\/","title":{"rendered":"1 of 2 Hong Kong hikers rescued from Japan\u2019s Northern Alps, search continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japanese authorities have rescued one of two Hong Kong hikers stranded on treacherous slopes in the country\u2019s Northern Alps.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Gifu Prefecture police dispatched a four-member rescue team, comprising police officers and civilian experts, from the mountain base at dawn on Tuesday in an attempt to reach the duo on foot, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A disaster prevention helicopter from neighbouring Nagano Prefecture eventually rescued one of the men before 10.30am local time, who was later transported to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The other man has not yet been rescued, according to Japanese media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The incident was first reported at 4.10pm on Sunday, when a 22-year-old Hong Kong resident living in Tokyo contacted the Hotakadake Sanso mountain hut in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, saying that he and his 30-year-old hiking partner from Hong Kong were stranded due to deteriorating weather.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The man has been rescued and taken to hospital. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/18acf271-2966-40a5-bca5-9fde689425bb_fe4d27fd.jpg\" title=\"The man has been rescued and taken to hospital. Photo: Handout\"\/>The man has been rescued and taken to hospital. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The duo were scaling the Gendarme, a notoriously rocky ridge sitting at an altitude of 3,163 metres (10,377 feet), according to local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese authorities have rescued one of two Hong Kong hikers stranded on treacherous slopes in the country\u2019s Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,33320,33327,33324,3260,33322,33328,33325,33329,33332,33321,33330,33331,33326,7133,33323],"class_list":{"0":"post-60112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-chinese-consulate-general-in-nagoya","10":"tag-gendarme","11":"tag-gifu-prefecture","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-hotakadake-sanso","14":"tag-immigration-department","15":"tag-japanese-police","16":"tag-mount-okuhotaka","17":"tag-nagano-prefecture-police","18":"tag-northern-alps","19":"tag-office-of-the-commissioner-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-in-hong-kong","20":"tag-takayama","21":"tag-threads","22":"tag-tokyo","23":"tag-treacherous-slopes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116520419754575122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}