{"id":171533,"date":"2025-12-07T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171533\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:00:08","slug":"tramper-dies-another-rescued-on-remote-west-coast-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171533\/","title":{"rendered":"Tramper dies, another rescued on remote West Coast track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tramper has died and another has been rescued from a remote track on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were notified about 6.30pm on Friday that a personal locator beacon (PLB) had been activated near the Klondyke Tahu Saddle in Victoria Forest Park, inland from Westport.<\/p>\n<p>Police Search and Rescue personnel attended and found the dead person and another tramper alive, The New Zealand Herald reports.<\/p>\n<p>Weather conditions prevented recovery of the body until Saturday, when a helicopter was able to be deployed.<\/p>\n<p>They said the matter had been referred to the Coroner, and support was being provided to the other tramper and next of kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tramper has died and another has been rescued from a remote track on the West Coast. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-171533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171533","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=171533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}