Mt. Fuji Radar
A young man in his early 20s reached the summit of Mt. Fuji riding on bulldozers 49 years ago.
His uncle ran a construction company in charge of installing a weather radar in a meteorological observatory built at the top of the highest mountain in Japan (3,376 metes).
So, the young man was allowed to get on a bulldozer carrying material for the construction. It was a big bulldozer when they started from the foot of Mt. Fuji. But at some point on the ridge, they changed it to a smaller bulldozer. The slope became so acute that the young man found that a half of the body of the special vehicle was hanging from a narrow path to a deep and sharp precipice. He could barely enjoy the mountain view.
It took seven hours for them to reach a construction site on the mountain peak. The young man payed homage at a shrine built there (Mt. Fuji is a holy mountain for shintoism) and looked on the meteorological observatory. He also checked remaining snow.
In descending Mt. Fuji, he used his feet, almost running down the steep ramp. In 90 minutes, he reached a gentle slope. But he got altitude illness to be down in a party of his uncle's company.
The radar on the top of Mt. Fuji had been used till 1999. It was the weather radar installed at the highest altitude in the world when it was set. In 2000, it was registered in the list of IEEE Milestones which record break-through events in the electric and electronic fields.
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Gen 7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
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