Unexpected action saved the life.
It is exposed to the cinders poured merciless near the summit of the mountain in Mt. Ontake immediately after an eruption on the body, and the man who protected and suspended a life is only in the head, getting seriously injured which breaks six places.
The man who passed a night in the hut near a summit and was rescued by helicopter meets again with a father in a sickroom.
It talked about the end of the tragic state, "It was a painting-of-the-inferno figure."
The office worker of Kumagaya-shi, Saitama, Mr. Yoshiyuki Kato (29).
Mt. Ontake was climbed with the friend of the mountain-climbing circle, and the eruption was faced near the summit of the mountain on the 27th.
"It seemed to be the painting-of-the-inferno figure."
On the evening of the 28th after rescue, Mr. Kato will tell the father and the congratulation (59) who ran to the hospital from Kumagaya in response to connection that he turned round like this.
According to Hisashi, there was Mr. Kato near the summit of the mountain at the time of an eruption.
It said, "There was sound of an eruption called a burn and he thought "it is in big trouble", and although it escaped, the volcanic bomb has fallen."
It was difficult [ time ] to run into a hut, and in order to protect oneself from a falling object, the arm was improved and the head was guarded.
It is said that the volcanic bomb poured heartlessly from moreover.
With the shock, Mr. Kato gets seriously injured which breaks six places, such as a collarbone on either side, and an arm, etc.
However, only the life was saved by having borne stoically with the posture in which the head is protected.
Probably because it was attacked by heat from the step, the burn was undertaken to the leg.
The figure of the person who fell on the outskirts in response to the direct hit of cinders also went into eyes.
Mr. Kato who became full of whole body cracks takes refuge in the hut near a summit with the friends who climbed a mountain together.
It says that it was told to the friend that Shimoyama of itself was left and carried out, and it is said that it remained in the hut by one person.
It was rescued in the hut and taken to the hospital in Nagano by helicopter of the Self-Defense Forces on the morning of the 28th the day on broke.
Receiving connection from the climbing partner, the congratulation got to know that Mr. Kato was climbing Mt. Ontake.
"It did not know having gone to Mt. Ontake by no means.
He got to know that it was alive, and felt relieved truly."
Hisashi applied the hand to the breast and he said so.