The Climbing of Fuginomia

"I think actually the altitude made my breathing really difficult. I would climb a few steps and my body wasn't tired but I got really out of breath," he says. "And then we got to the Tori gate at the top of the Fuginomia route and all of a sudden it was over ... you couldn't see anything at all." He adds: "Of course looking back on it now I'm happy that I had that experience but at the time it was really miserable".