{"id":184764,"date":"2025-12-15T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184764\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:10:12","slug":"climbers-overdue-as-heavy-weather-hits-aoraki-mt-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184764\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbers overdue as heavy weather hits Aoraki Mt Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Intense moonlight makes Mt Sefton shimmer long after dark. PHOTOS: PAUL GORMAN\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/paul_gorman_mt_cook_img_795.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two climbers are overdue on Aoraki Mt Cook. FILE PHOTO: PAUL GORMAN<\/p>\n<p>Two climbers on Aoraki Mt Cook are overdue from their climb as strong winds and heavy rain hamper search and rescue efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Vicki Walker, Aoraki Area Commander, said\u00a0Police Search and Rescue, and Department of Conservation Search and Rescue were working together and would search on the mountain as weather conditions allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The area is under severe weather warnings for heavy rain and strong winds for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>It comes just weeks after two climbers, a guide and their client, fell to their deaths on the mountain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two climbers are overdue on Aoraki Mt Cook. FILE PHOTO: PAUL GORMAN Two climbers on Aoraki Mt Cook&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-184764","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\/184764","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=184764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}