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Heritage Taranaki is calling for the government to step in and save the historic Barrett St Nurses Home in New Plymouth.

Summer is the easiest time to summit due to limited ice and snow at the peak, says former police officer and alpine rescuer George White says. In the spring the soft slushy-like snow means if climbers fall they don’t slide down the mountain. ANDY JACKSON/Stuff But in the Autumn the mountain is a death trap for inexperienced climbers, he says. “The maunga can bite, and he bites hard.” The 58-year-old New Plymouth man has been involved in countless rescues and body recoveries from th...

Richard Phillips and Peter Kirkwood died while trying to summit Taranaki Maunga. (Composite image) He was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, and the couple, who met at university, spent time working, skiing and climbing in the US, before moving to New Zealand in 2018. Kirkwood had climbed “numerous peaks” in the European Alps, Scottish Highlands, North American Rockies, and New Zealand’s Southern Alps. He was looking forward to introducing his baby daughter, Elaine Sierra, to the moun...

Crew on board a helicopter, dispatched as part of a search and rescue operation, found the two climbers dead shortly before midnight. Their bodies could not be retrieved at the time, and conditions on the mountain stymied efforts by police alpine rescue experts to bring them out on Wednesday. They were recovered from the mountain, with the help of helicopter, shortly after 8am on Thursday. Anthony Wedgwood/Stuff Richard Phillips and Peter Kirkwood died while trying to summit Taranaki Maunga...

Less than a fortnight after posting a tribute to a friend killed in a rockfall, Richard Phillips died near the summit of Taranaki Maunga, along with his colleague Peter Kirkwood.

SIMON OCONNOR/Stuff Though conditions appeared calm, Search and Rescue teams were unable to retrieve the bodies of the two men on Wednesday. Stratford man Anthony Wedgwood had been in the same area of the mountain on Tuesday. He had reached Syme Hut, about 500 metres from the summit at about 2pm when he decided to make the three-hour trek back to the Dawson Falls car park. Anthony Wedgwood/Stuff Anthony Wedgwood made it all the way to Syme Hut, 500 metres from the summit of Taranaki Maunga, w...

Less than a fortnight after posting a tribute to a friend killed in a rockfall, Richard Phillips died near the summit of Taranaki Maunga, along with his colleague Peter Kirkwood.

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