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Mount Fuji Peak, Japan, 1982

"'He who climbs Fuji once is a wise man; he who climbs it twice is a fool,' goes a Japanese saying. For centuries pilgrims have ascended 12,389-foot [3,776-meter] Mount Fuji. Now even as its slopes are scarred by erosion and defiled by tons of garbage, planners seek to accommodate more people."

—From "Earth Almanac," January 1993, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by George F. Mobley