Photo: FLORIAN BRILL
Police have recovered the bodies of an internationally-recognised mountain guide and their client who died in an overnight fall on Aoraki Mt Cook.
The climbers were in a party of four, roped together in pairs, climbing from Empress Hut to the summit when the two fell from the mountain's west ridge.
Canterbury Aoraki area commander inspector Vicki Walker said the group included two New Zealand mountain guides and two foreign nationals.
She said their bodies were fo
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