AOMORI — A 55-year-old man and his 11-year-old son returned safely Monday morning after spending a night missing at the Mt Hakkoda ski area in Aomori, northeastern Japan, police said.
After deviating from a ski course and getting lost in fog Sunday afternoon, Nobuyuki and Hiroshi Ogawa passed the night without sleep in the freezing cold in a hole at the root of a large tree and were found around 7:45 a.m. by a police searcher, they said.
Although the temperature at the mountaintop was minus 13 on Sunday midnight, they were confirmed free from injury at a hospital where they were taken for checks, the police added.
Searcher Kazuo Sato, 60, found the pair standing near a stream several hundred meters from a ski course. The two then went down the mountain on skis, telling the searcher they were fine, according to Sato.
The two had not returned after going toward a peak of the ski area Sunday afternoon while skiing from that morning with two other family members—Ogawa’s wife and another son—prompting some 20 police officers to search for them from early Monday.
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