Since Seth didn't want to climb and most of her friend's from work had climbed the previous year, she needed to find other people to climb with. In the end, she joined a group of foreigners from the XXXX club. For some reason, we'd been receiving a magazine from this club quarterly. The club organized travel event and Tara had always thought they looked like interesting day trips to join. Their one magazine, that had been sitting in the bathrooms for months, had a description of an overnight Mt. Fuji climb on Friday night, August 31st. Tara called the club on Thursday and arranged to join them on Friday.

Tara took the day off of work to rest before taking the subway to meet everyone in front of the WAVE building in Roppongi at 6pm. She would return to the WAVE building approximately 19 hour later, hobble to a taxi and collapse on the floor the minute she cross the threshold at home.