{"id":634414,"date":"2026-10-18T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634414\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:10:15","slug":"mt-dixon-avalanche-man-dies-after-becoming-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634414\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Dixon avalanche: Man dies after becoming trapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792336215_990_WJBBNFHEO5GXLN5HCNYJJHKXTM.jpg\" alt=\"Herald Reporters\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Dixon Peak, where an avalanche has killed one person. Photo \/ Murray Foubister<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man has died after becoming trapped in an avalanche at Mt Dixon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said emergency services were alerted about 10am and a search and rescue operation was launched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Senior Sergeant Craig Ellison said the man was found unresponsive a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cDespite best efforts by those at the<br \/>\n         scene, the man was pronounced deceased a short time after being found,\u201d he said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">His body has since been recovered and the death will be referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,118646,16717,6179,7126,84394,5158,10048,111,43,139,69,8528],"class_list":["post-634414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-avalanche","tag-becoming","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-dixon","tag-man","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-trapped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634414","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=634414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}