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    Quote Originally Posted by BobGibson View Post
    Took her three days to travel 2km to the Hut in +1m snow which would have completely covered any sign of the track in a LOT of places
    Imagine sleeping out in that and being injured.
    Just read that extra information now too, makes a bit more sense than the initial report.

    Kinda surprised they even got to Harris Saddle if there was that much snow up there, heaps of avalanche paths cross the track where it sidles across the bluffs to the saddle.

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    It will be in the Readers Digest and a movie will be made of it
    She did it hard

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    We just don't know the full story, state of mind, weather conditions, the shock suffered when the event unfolded before her.
    However it brings up the question of insurance cover (rescue cover) that you have to take when venturing into National Parks and other outdoor activities which is mandatory in Europe.
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    Oh boy...imagine how she must have felt...and we all know about how hypothermia can affect the sensibilities...and the lost of her husband...
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    Blood hell Chinese whispers again!!!
    No where to my knowledge has the dead guy been identified as the woman's husband.
    I believe their association was no more than traveling companions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobGibson View Post
    Blood hell Chinese whispers again!!!
    No where to my knowledge has the dead guy been identified as the woman's husband.
    I believe their association was no more than traveling companions.
    Yes, all I heard was tramping partner also

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    Pssst wing chow tan hong foo! (More Chinese whispers). The gal has grit guys. No need to speculate beyond that. The whole story will out in the end.
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    I came across a tramper half starved and mentally exhausted at a hut 2 hrs from the road during the roar, been there 4 days and was on the 11th day of his expected 5 day walk. Just a foreigner way out of his depth and experience, lead into a dangerous situation by a lack of available current information. I'm kind of shocked some of you guys would even suggest the idea of murder...

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    I don't think murder is what happened here, mentioned it as I have thought some of the 'accident' may not have been in the past. Tough chick living in a hut alone for a month, she deserves credit for that. As tussock said, it's a bad look for nz that she can be there for a month and no-one alerted authorities.

    Good point about not being husband, I had assumed!

    It is another case of overseas tourists underestimating the conditions that the new Zealand alpine environments can produce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by K95 View Post
    I came across a tramper half starved and mentally exhausted at a hut 2 hrs from the road during the roar, been there 4 days and was on the 11th day of his expected 5 day walk. Just a foreigner way out of his depth and experience, lead into a dangerous situation by a lack of available current information. I'm kind of shocked some of you guys would even suggest the idea of murder...
    Was that the American chap I met?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    I joked "don't ride bikes here we hate them". We know they said. Explained they had bikes in the North Island but people abused them verbally and someone forced them off the road and told them it was illegal
    That isn't funny.

    NZer's attitude to cyclists is fucking disgusting and it needs to change.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    Its not a bad look for New Zealand, just shitty luck for her. Still, there could be dozens out there. Shit vans full of Europeans everywhere.

    I gave a lift to two extremely downtrodden 18 year old german girls hitch hiking south into a Southerly with a sign that said they wanted to go east. They had a large bag of food and someone else had spotted their pup tent in a carpark. Their total budget appeared to be about $10. I joked "don't ride bikes here we hate them". We know they said. Explained they had bikes in the North Island but people abused them verbally and someone forced them off the road and told them it was illegal They looked broken.

    I doubt they lived.

    I'm mildly sick of being dismissed by foreigners who think they know better when offered local knowledge.
    They were probably riding/hitching on a Motorway....see it here all the time, tho our 2 lane "motorway" probably looks like a quaint country road to most foreigners.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack_ View Post
    That isn't funny.

    NZer's attitude to cyclists is fucking disgusting and it needs to change.
    My attitude won't change as long as the attitude of many cyclists is that the road is there for them only.
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    She said in her interview 'partner' not husband

 

 

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