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Treacherous ice on Mt Cook 10-Dec-2003 At 11:23:38 AM Nich

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Just returned from Mt Cook, NZ (with my own injuries) and can tell you that there were 3 Aussies, from Adelaide I think, staying at the YHA last week who were flying up to the plateau so I would assume it was them.
Another Australian named Andrew King, 26, was injured in a fall off Mt Annette (mueller glacier area) on the weekend.
John was going to Tasman Saddle first, and then heading to the plateau in a couple of weeks as far as I know.
Conditions are dangerous. There was still an almost winter-like cover of snow in the park when I left and there have been other earlier rescues off Mt Cook as well as Mt Aspiring; most have been Australians. Be careful - we're starting to get a bad name over there (seriously).