Horrifying final words of hiker who accidentally live streamed his own death

A hiker appeared to livestream his own death and uttered one horrifying last word as he fell down the face of Mount Fuji.

A man's body was found two days after authorities were inundated with calls from concerned viewers who had tuned in to Tedzo’s final livestream in 2019.

Although Mount Fuji is a popular tourist spot and more than 300,000 walk it each year. However people are prohibited from climbing the mountain in Japan in the winter.

Despite this, Tedzo attempted to reach the summit of the nation's highest peak on the afternoon of Monday 29 September, according to the Providence Journal.

The video shows a camera's eye-view of the ascent, with the climber panting as he said: "I'm rushing to the peak." He complained repeatedly of cold hands, and he can be seen trying to warm them by placing them under his armpits.

"My fingers are losing sensation. I wish I had brought a smartphone holder. It's in my pocket," he said. "My fingers are killing me. Let's warm them up." The path he is on then narrows, with a fence on the left, before sloping down. "Oh, it's slippery, it's so slippery, it's dangerous," he said, still laughing.

"Here are rocks. We can follow the rocks. It's pretty dangerous. I can climb down by sliding," he said. "It's steep. The path is covered with snow . . . Am I on the right path? I'm slipping! Here it's also dangerous with this slope." Finally, he just said: "slipping."

The sound of his slide can be heard on the livestream along with flashes of his boots, climbing poles, and a smartphone before it ends in a freeze frame of the snow, rock and part of a blue pole. In the video, a woman's voice can also be heard, but it seems to be coming from his phone.

Police said they had received several calls from viewers watching the man's ascent, public broadcaster NHK reported. YouTube channel Dark Secrets claimed the man, whose real name was Tetsu Shiohara had stage 4 cancer at the time of his death.

Police sent a helicopter to look for the climber, while a 10-member rescue team began scouring the area on Tuesday morning, finding signs of a fall that day. But they had still not found a body.

By the Wednesday, police from the Shizuoka prefecture said they found a body but had not yet identified it, NHK reported.

The climbing season for the 3,776-meter (12,388-foot) peak ended on September 10, with the official website advising trails and huts are closed after this date and it is "very dangerous" to climb the mountain during this period.

The U.S. Embassy says some climbers nevertheless attempt to climb the mountain during the offseason, adding every year, "a number of climbers - including Americans - are killed while attempting to climb Mount Fuji."

In August of the same year a Russian woman was killed by a falling rock. The first snow was observed on Mount Fuji on Oct. 22, which was 22 days later than in an average year and 26 days later than in 2018, according to Japanese media.