Police have released the name of the 53-year-old woman who died while tramping on the West Coast last week.<\/p>\n
Amy MacIver, 53, of M\u0101pua, died in the Klondyke Valley near Reefton on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts are with her family and her climbing companion,\u201d police said in statement said today.<\/p>\n
Police earlier said they were notified about 6.30pm on Friday that a personal locator beacon had been activated near the Klondyke Rahu Saddle.<\/p>\n
Search teams responded and found two people, one alive and one dead.<\/p>\n
Weather conditions prevented the recovery of the body by helicopter until the next day.<\/p>\n
Police said the death had been referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n
M\u0101pua caf\u00e9 Java Hut said on Facebook it was \u201cwith deep sorrow\u201d that it shared news of the loss of \u201cour wonderful Amy\u201d, describing her as passionate, enthusiastic and kind.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmy tragically passed away on Friday evening while tramping. Such shocking and devastating news. We are so sorry to everyone who knew, liked and loved Amy,\u201d the post says.<\/p>\n
A memorial for MacIver will be held in the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released the name of the 53-year-old woman who died while tramping on the West Coast last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-175742","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\/175742","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=175742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}