The Japanese Mountain With Twice Everest’s Death Toll

When people picture a deadly mountain, they picture the giants. Everest. K2. Annapurna. Everest alone has killed around three hundred and forty people in a century of climbing, and that grim number is a big part of why the world knows its name. Now picture a mountain barely a third of Everest's height. Not even two thousand meters tall, with a ropeway carrying tourists partway up the side. A mountain almost no one outside Japan has ever heard of. That mountain has killed more than eight hundred people. Each death recorded, each one with a name. Everest, across its entire climbing history, has killed somewhere around three hundred and forty. This small Japanese peak has killed more than twice that, and over the same stretch of decades, it has claimed roughly four times the number of lives Everest did. It holds a Guinness World Record for it: the highest death toll of any single mountain on Earth. The Japanese gave it names to match. The Mountain of Death. The Mountain of Demons. The man-eating mountain. This is Mount Tanigawa. And the question is a simple one: how does a mountain this small kill more people than the tallest peaks on the planet? Make sure to subscribe for weekly videos!