{"id":216546,"date":"2026-01-04T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:46:05","slug":"mount-huxley-search-police-appeal-for-sightings-of-missing-tramper-connor-purvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216546\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Huxley search: Police appeal for sightings of missing tramper Connor Purvis"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe ask anyone who has climbed Mt Huxley or has been tramping or hunting in the Huxley River South Branch between December 28 and January 2 to make contact with Police if they haven\u2019t already.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also want to hear from anyone who may have seen or spoken to Connor in the South Temple, Ahuriri or Huxley valleys in that same timeframe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Purvis has red hair and a handlebar moustache, Sheat said.<\/p>\n
A large search is under way for Connor Purvis, a tramper missing near Lake \u014chau. Image \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n
The search is being carried out by police search and rescue teams, joined by Land Search and Rescue teams, the Department of Conservation\u2019s alpine rescue team from Aoraki\/Mt Cook, and air support from Heliventures in Oamaru and Helicopter Line at Mt Cook.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge anyone with information to get in touch with us as soon as possible,\u201d Sheat said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a large-scale search over a large area, and the smallest piece of information could make all the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
Information can be provided at 105.police.govt.nz, clicking \u201cUpdate report\u201d, or by calling 105. Please use the reference number 260102\/2266.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe ask anyone who has climbed Mt Huxley or has been tramping or hunting in the Huxley River…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6375,15118,2082,129432,130757,13207,3242,6501,13233,3180,111,43,139,69,1118,675,130758,1870,28652,108852,8238],"class_list":{"0":"post-216546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-appeal","9":"tag-connor","10":"tag-for","11":"tag-hau","12":"tag-huxley","13":"tag-lake","14":"tag-large","15":"tag-missing","16":"tag-mount","17":"tag-near","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-of","23":"tag-police","24":"tag-purvis","25":"tag-search","26":"tag-sightings","27":"tag-tramper","28":"tag-under"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216546","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=216546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}