A multisport athlete who survived a harrowing fall on Aoraki\/Mt Cook several years ago has died after a cycling collision in Christchurch last month.<\/p>\n
Dr Ian Huntsman was biking along Evans Pass Rd in Sumner on the afternoon of February 22 when the crash involving a car occurred near the intersection with Sumnervale Dr.<\/p>\n
He was taken to Christchurch Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Huntsman, an aeronautical engineer and Coast to Coast instructor, was in intensive care but succumbed to his injuries yesterday, police said this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police are still investigating what caused the crash.<\/p>\n
Huntsman’s partner, Wendy Riach, said in a social media post that he died peacefully in hospital.<\/p>\n
She said he was riding his brevet bike from Evans Pass towards Sumner when the crash happened.<\/p>\n
“As a result of the crash, Ian received catastrophic injuries and was admitted to Christchurch ICU. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“Emergency surgery took place that night.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, his injuries proved too extensive, and just after 7am on 4 March, Ian left this world peacefully in the company of family, having had exceptional care throughout his time in hospital.”<\/p>\n
She said the cause of the crash was “not yet known”.<\/p>\n
“And more information is needed before any conclusion may be reached.<\/p>\n
“That will be for another time, and regardless, there is no outcome which will ever bring Ian safely back home to us.<\/p>\n
“For now we will think of Ian, how much we shall miss him, and how he impacted our lives with his kindness and generosity,”\u00a0Riach said.<\/p>\n
Huntsman\u00a0previously\u00a0evaded death when a boulder struck him\u00a0in 2020\u00a0near Aoraki\/Mount Cook in Canterbury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Press\u00a0reported Huntsman\u00a0fell about 100m down a rock face and landed headfirst in a stream.<\/p>\n
He was climbing with Riach at the time, and she managed to get him to safety.<\/p>\n
Huntsman\u00a0recovered enough to take part in the Coast to Coast\u00a0in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multisport athlete who survived a harrowing fall on Aoraki\/Mt Cook several years ago has died after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-314303","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\/314303","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=314303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}