Mount Fuji

I;m too tired to write proper description of the climb. Basically i got up yesterday morning at 6.00am to get the bus from Shinjuku station where i met everybody doing the climb. We get to the 5th Station by 11.30, wait around, then start climbing. It was actually a very easy climb in some ways but the things that made it really hard were the crowds (there was never a gap or a moment when someone was not directly behind and in front of you), on top of that being in a group we had to all stay together and our guide insisted on walking at snail:s pace so we wouldn:t get altitude sickness. I kept trying to go past. After we climbed for four slow hours on the first afternoon, we had dinner at our hut and went to `bed` at six pm. The `bed` is one big mattress and nearly impossible to sleep. I maybe nodded off here and there. Then at 11.45pm it was time to get up, in the dark and the cold and climb to the summit in time for sunrise. This part was even more crowded and more steep than the first, but made worse by really really slow walking. We made to about a few metres below very crowded summit in itme to watch the red sun come up from under the blanket of white clouds. It was like seeing the sunrise from a plane, except we were on a mountain. The climb down was extremely steep and dusty, but lower down it was really beautiful near the forest and even closer to the clouds.
We went to an onsen after which was so good to have a shower after all that sweating and dust for 24 hours.
Must go sleep now.