{"id":171417,"date":"2025-12-07T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171417\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:12:07","slug":"one-tramper-dead-one-rescued-after-beacon-activated-near-klondyke-tahu-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171417\/","title":{"rendered":"One tramper dead, one rescued after beacon activated near Klondyke Tahu Saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>7 Dec, 2025 02:19 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Klondyke Valley Track in the Victoria Forest Park on the West Coast. Photo \/ Department of Conservation<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person is dead and another rescued following a tramping trip on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were notified at around 6.30pm on Friday that a personal locator beacon (PLB) had been activated near the Klondyke Tahu Saddle in Victoria Forest Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police Search and Rescue attended and found a tramper<br \/>\n         and the dead person.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Weather conditions prevented recovery of the body until Saturday, when a helicopter was able to be deployed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 7 Dec, 2025 02:19 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110760,74,9526,49212,11586,690,5504,42,110761,3180,43,5270,4056,18560,110762,98616,40,38,41,39,108852,110763,1315,3807],"class_list":{"0":"post-171417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-activated","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-another","11":"tag-beacon","12":"tag-coast","13":"tag-dead","14":"tag-following","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-klondyke","17":"tag-near","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-one","20":"tag-person","21":"tag-rescued","22":"tag-saddle","23":"tag-tahu","24":"tag-top-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topnews","27":"tag-topstories","28":"tag-tramper","29":"tag-tramping","30":"tag-trip","31":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171417","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=171417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}