After a week of challenging conditions, a helicopter was deployed today due to improved weather in the search for three climbers missing on Aoraki Mount Cook.
The search began Monday when the climbers were reported overdue, but dangerous weather hindered efforts for most of the week. Today, the helicopter crew recovered climbing-related items, including a top, energy gels, a jacket, and an ice axe, along with evidence of the climbers’ traverse beneath Zurbriggen Ridge.
Drone footage confirmed signs of their presence, such as footprints and the retrieved items. Despite the findings, police now believe the men fell and did not survive, marking five days since their disappearance.
Police have informed the Coroner of their conclusion and have suspended the active search, although they remain ready to resume operations if credible new information arises.
The families of the climbers, from the United States and Canada, have been notified of the devastating news.
While recovery efforts will be carefully evaluated, the search team expressed their deep sorrow, emphasizing their commitment and hope for a different outcome. The focus now shifts to supporting the families and exploring the feasibility of recovery operations to provide closure.
Image credit: Nick Da Foncesca
When did they sneak the obligatory second indigenous name for Mt Cook in there, and when will they inevitably be dropping the English one?
Asking for a friend who’s unfamiliar with social engineering.
Customary rights
You know the rules
A victim
A minority group
White abuse
Might sneak in for Mount Odin too
Likewise Named by the Worlds greatest navigator
Captain Cook
Next to Maui
Odin was a real life character
Related to George Washington
And not some mythical figure like Tane (Man)
“White abuse” apparently = “oh look, there’s a mountain. What should we name it?”
PS: I don’t know about MT Odin, but I would absolutely vote for a MT Thor if they put a lighting conductor in the shape of a hammer on its peak.
Well they didn’t try and rescue them for days on end so yah I guess they would have died because NO ONE rescued them. Did they send up a drone the first day? Unbelievable really. Sad for thr families. RIP nature loving people. Our country has become a bunch of box ticking gutless pussies. In the 80s we would have just gone in and saved them.
True. What happened to Search & Rescue?
Yeah most likely has become “wait and procrastinate”.
Just like what they did with Pike River.
“THE EIGER SANCTION”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cVv7Kz218Jsc
This came to mind
Not sure why these guys do this
Might watch it myself
Plenty of likes
Unbelievably pathetic
Aoraki, don’t ya know, it’s always been this. //s. Anyway it’s a massive bitch. Some things you should just avoid.
New Zealand really needs to think about the outcomes of a severely advantaged race and what it will bring. Living off the backs of other people’s labour and natural resource exclusivity is unworkable.
There are privileged people. They are called children, the sick, elderly, and people who are experiencing hardships.
It is not conditional on skin colour.
More and more voters will move away from National and vote Act.
David Seymour for Prime Minister – Yes please.