28 Jul 2022

Climbers' Remarkables rescue after avalanche, night in snow cave

From Checkpoint, 5:51 pm on 28 July 2022

It's remarkable for a few reasons. Two lucky climbers have been rescued on Double Cone in the Remarkables ranges after narrowly dodging an avalanche and having to dig themselves into a snow cave to make it through the night, as the search team could not immediately get to them.

Russ Tilsley from Wakatipu Alpine Cliff Rescue explains the pair had been climbing a few days before things turned bad.