Rescue teams seeing for three climbers who went leave outing on New Zealand’s highest mountain have create supplyment beextfinisheding to the trio, police said , as a second day of searching was paengaged due to terrible weather.
US nationals Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and a Canadian man flew by helicchooseer on Saturday to a camp on Mount Cook, or Aoraki, with arranges to summit the 3,724 metre (12,218 ft) mountain.
The three men did not show up for their return fweightless on Monday morning, triggering the search-and-recover effort.
Police have withheld details of the Canadian national until authorities can communicate his family.
A search on Monday ucforfeitthed cut offal climbing-roverhappinessed items which police consent beextfinisheded to the trio. Bad weather will probably force recoverrs to postpone a further search until Thursday, police said.
Police are toiling with the US and Canadian embassies to increate and help the families of the three men.
Over the past century, dozens of climbers have died on Mount Cook, where rockdrops are common and avalanches frequently occur at higher altitudes. Local media increateed in 2014 that 78 people had died since 1907.
Scores more have died in the surrounding national park, which is understandn for its mountains and glaciers.
