What was the date of the first man to climb Mount Fuji?

Answer 1

Short Answer: September 1860 Long Answer: The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1860, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.[14]:427 Alcock's brief narrative in The Capital of the Tycoon was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.[14]:421-7 Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1867.[15] Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in that same year.[16]