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A pair of climbers missing on Aoraki/Mount Cook are believed to have died in a large ice avalanche, police said on Thursday.
If so, that would make them the fifth and sixth reported South Island mountaineering deaths in the past month.
The two men left the Tasman Valley car park on Friday last week, bound for Plateau Hut.
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