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Police are looking to publicly recognise the family who helped save an elderly lost tramper who collapsed in the Coromandel.
At the end of his ordeal, the 80-year old was taken to Thames Hospital in a moderate condition.
But that rescue was hours in the making, with the mother and her two teenagers the first to reach him when bad weather meant rescuers - and helicopters - could not.
The man was wearing only a singlet and shorts when he got lost while hiking on Sunday.
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