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Katarina Williams05:00, May 01 2021 Supplied Janet Nye, pictured here at Waitarere, a few months before her October 2018 trekking death in Ladakh, India. The man who led a trekking trip to India, in which a Wellington woman died after developing acute mountain sickness, concedes the “window” to help her descend from high altitude in the hours before she died was missed. But despite being appointed to lead by the trip organiser, the Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (FMC) Travel Club, Joe Nawalaniec insists “ultimate responsibility” didn’t rest with him. For Wellington nurse and avid t...

SUPPLIED Mountaineer Joe Nawalaniec became the first recorded solo climber to summit Kang Yatse, a peak in the Himalayas in northern India in 2017. He was the trip leader on the trek Janet Nye died on the following year. The death of Wellington woman Janet Nye on a trekking trip to Ladakh, organised by the Federated Mountain Club (FMC) Travel Club, is being scrutinised at a coronial inquest at Wellington District Court. Reference has been made to documents that Nye’s oxygen tank may have been empty when she set out on the ill-fated trek, and that the New Zealand trip leader argued with the...