{"id":151846,"date":"2025-11-24T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151846\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:55:08","slug":"two-climbers-dead-after-fall-on-aoraki-mt-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151846\/","title":{"rendered":"Two climbers dead after fall on Aoraki Mt Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4JXE9CI_AFP__20200214__10358589__v1__HighRes__10358589_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Mt Cook peak with cloud in the last evening light, Mt Cook National Park, Canterbury, New Zealand (Photo by Florian Brill \/ mauritius images via AFP)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAoraki Mt Cook<br \/>\nPhoto: FLORIAN BRILL\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people are dead after falling while climbing Aoraki Mt Cook.<\/p>\n<p>Police said four people were attempting to summit the mountain just before midnight on Monday, when two of them fell near the summit.<\/p>\n<p>The two surviving climbers called for help and were picked up by search and rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The two other climbers were unable to be located overnight on Monday, but their bodies were spotted at about 7am Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>An operation was under way to reach the bodies.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoraki Mt Cook Photo: FLORIAN BRILL Two people are dead after falling while climbing Aoraki Mt Cook. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-151846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}