MIL-OSI New Zealand: Two climbers rescued after rock slide in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park
Source: Maritime New Zealand Maritime NZ’s Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ)* has coordinated the rescue of two climbers – one badly injured – caught by a rock slide in steep terrain in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park. Search Mission Coordinator, Neville Blakemore, said the climbers activated the distress alerting function of their InReach device last night at 5.30pm after the rock slide. The complicated rescue was completed at 8.50 am today when the climbers arrived at Greymouth Hospital. Mr Blakemore said being able to activate their device may well have saved the injured...