Colville said a Takaka land search and rescue (SAR) team was on stand-by and teams were about to be flown in to the national park on Sunday morning after an earlier search had shown the missing tramper had not spent a night at Boulder Lake Hut, where he was expected to be on Friday evening. He said a check of the Hut’s visitors’ book showed only one tramper had stayed in the hut. Police found the named tramper from the book along the track and established he had spent a night in the hut by himself. It meant that the missing man had possibly either become disorientated or fallen, Colville said, spending both Friday and Saturday night out in the elements, where temperatures fell below zero.
One person flown to Nelson Hospital after crash near Rai Valley
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A Coastguard Nelson crew trains at Port Nelson with the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter crew using the rescue helicopter s winch.
The Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter service is 30 this year. Samantha Gee looks at its life-changing role over the past three decades. Tipped out of his kayak, with waves breaking over his head, Alan McDermott knew time was no longer on his side. He had been in the water for close to an hour after the weather changed unexpectedly on what had been an otherwise uneventful morning kayak in Golden Bay.
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Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter crew member Paul “Ernie” Bryant with the rescue helicopter s Breeze winch.