{"id":216510,"date":"2026-01-04T16:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216510\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:09:32","slug":"two-climbers-still-missing-at-mt-cook-two-who-died-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216510\/","title":{"rendered":"Two climbers still missing at Mt Cook, two who died named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JWCS59_fiordland_national_park_png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1058\" alt=\"A police team member on a mountain in Fiordland.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA police team member on a mountain in Fiordland.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Police\n<\/p>\n<p>A search of the route taken by two missing climbers on Aoraki\/Mt Cook has turned up no sign of the pair.<\/p>\n<p>Bad weather has hampered the search for the climbers, who have been missing since Monday, but conditions improved enough for a helicopter to go up last night.<\/p>\n<p>They followed the route the climbers took from Plateau hut and Linda glacier to the summit, but nothing was found.<\/p>\n<p>The search resumed this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/top\/581865\/bodies-of-two-climbers-recovered-from-national-park-two-others-overdue-on-aoraki-mt-cook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">named the two climbers<\/a> who died in Fiordland last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>They are 28-year-old Connor Scott McKenzie and 23-year-old Tanmay Shetankumar Bhati, who both lived in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In November, two climbers, Wanaka-based mountain guide Thomas Vialletet and his client, died on Aoraki Mt Cook after the two fell from the mountain&#8217;s west ridge.<\/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":"A police team member on a mountain in Fiordland. Photo: Supplied \/ Police A search of the route&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-216510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216510","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=216510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}