Gilles Mingasson Snow-covered Mount Fuji peaks from behind a gas station and amusement park in Fujiyoshida City (pop. 50,000). Gilles Mingasson The sacred mountain, source of spiritual and ...

It was more than two weeks before Mt. Fuji stopped erupting ... directly in the path of pyroclastic flows - currents of gas and volcanic debris full of tiny, sharp particles travelling at nearly ...