Climber dies at -20C on 12,000ft peak; TRAGEDY.A JAPANESE climber stranded for six hours on a mountain in New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. died just hours before rescuers reached him and his companion. Kiyoshi Ikenouchi, 49, perished as temperatures plunged to -20C on Mount Cook in the South Island. His friend Hideaki Nara, 51, survived the poor weather as they waited in a tent near the 3,754m summit of the country's highest peak. Rescuers in a helicopter had located the pair on Tuesday, and were able to drop emergency supplies, but the wind was too strong to remove them until yesterday. Nara, who is recovering in hospital, has a frostbitten frost·bite n. Injury or destruction of skin and underlying tissue, most often that of the nose, ears, fingers, or toes, resulting from prolonged exposure to freezing or subfreezing temperatures. tr.v. face but was otherwise said to be in good condition. Ikenouchi becomes the 69th climber, and the seventh Japanese national, to perish TO PERISH. To come to an end; to cease to be; to die. 2. What has never existed cannot be said to have perished. 3. When two or more persons die by the same accident, as a shipwreck, no presumption arises that one perished before the on Mount Cook. |
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