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Helicopter rescues lost snowboarder in New Zealand |
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 Posted by content on Thursday 18th August, 2011 @ 09:04 GMT |
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A helicopter search team were called out at night on Tue 16th August to search for a snowboarder who ventured outside the Coronet Peak skifield boundary. |
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The helicopter team were using night vision equipment and found the man at 11pm after he had split with his group at 3pm the same day.
When he was found he was cold, but alive and well, and extremely pleased to see the helicopter land on a precipice above him.
Coronet Peak ski area manager Hamish McCrostie said after he did not meet up with his snowboarding companions at the end of the day, they raised the alarm and a search was launched.
Mr McCrostie told the Otago Daily Times: "He came running up to the chopper and he was very lucky it all ended so well.
"Conditions on the mountain were cloudy with fog and low visibility at the time he become separated, but cleared in the evening enabling the helicopter to operate.
It was not snowing at the time, which made survival a lot easier for the 30-year-old man who was the second person to go missing from the skifield this week.
On Sunday a woman from Christchurch had to hike for 10km to a barn after she took a wrong turn up Coronet Peak. |
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