TOKYO - Japan's ex-Formula One driver Ukyo Katayama was rescued Friday from the snowy slopes of Mount Fuji, where two of his companions were missing and feared dead in harsh winter conditions.
Rescuers found Katayama, 46, walking alone down a trail 2,200 metres above sea level on the 3,776-metre mountain, said a Gotemba police station officer.
Katayama told rescuers his two fellow climbers, employees in his company, may have died on the mountain after their tents blew away.
After his Formula One career in the 1990s, Katayama became an adventurer and scaled some of the highest mountains in the world, including Himalayan peaks, Mt. McKinley in Alaska and Kilimanjaro in Kenya.
The three men were training for a trip to Antarctica, Kyodo News said.
12-18-2009, 10:20 PM
Former F1 racer Katayama rescued from snowy Mt Fuji 
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