The Star: March 22, 2018
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 3<br />
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• By Andrew King<br />
A GERMAN woman<br />
canyoning in the Arthur’s Pass<br />
National Park fell about 100m<br />
to her death at the weekend.<br />
Her devastated husband<br />
then abseiled to where she lay,<br />
activated an emergency beacon<br />
and yelled for help.<br />
<strong>The</strong> couple were at the Twin<br />
Peaks Falls near the access<br />
road of the<br />
Temple Basin<br />
Ski Area<br />
when she fell<br />
on Sunday<br />
about 4pm.<br />
People at<br />
a nearby car<br />
park heard<br />
Pete Stills<br />
the husband’s<br />
calls and<br />
dialled 111.<br />
A Westpac Rescue Helicopter<br />
was sent from Greymouth<br />
and a paramedic was winched<br />
down, but the woman, aged in<br />
her 30s, was dead.<br />
NZCC Greymouth Rescue<br />
Helicopter base manager<br />
Angus Taylor said the husband<br />
was winched out and taken<br />
to the Arthur’s Pass National<br />
Park Visitor Centre.<br />
“He wasn’t saying much, but<br />
you would expect that, he had<br />
just lost his wife,” he said.<br />
Her body was winched out<br />
by the helicopter crew after<br />
a police officer had been sent<br />
down to examine the scene, he<br />
said.<br />
Mr Taylor said he believed<br />
the couple were due to head<br />
back to Australia, where they<br />
lived, after canyoning at the<br />
Twin Peak Falls.<br />
Senior Sergeant Pete Stills<br />
said the couple were experienced<br />
at canyoning and had<br />
just done a course in the Abel<br />
Tasman National Park before<br />
heading to Arthur’s Pass.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y were really keen on it<br />
. . . they went to a well-known<br />
spot to further their experience,”<br />
he said.<br />
Canyoning is the sport of<br />
jumping into a fast-flowing<br />
TRAGIC ACCIDENT: A<br />
woman fell 100m from the<br />
top of the Twin Peaks Falls<br />
in Arthur’s Pass National<br />
Park (above).<br />
(Right) – Canyoning.<br />
mountain stream and allowing<br />
it to carry you downstream at<br />
high speed.<br />
Police have referred the death<br />
to the coroner.<br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Woman plunges 100m to death<br />
Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>22</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
In Brief<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
SEARCH FOR EMMA BEATTIE<br />
An annual district search and<br />
rescue training exercise this<br />
weekend will also be used to<br />
search for Emma Beattie who went<br />
missing 112 days ago in North<br />
Canterbury. About 100<br />
participants from Canterbury<br />
Land Search and Rescue, Police<br />
Search and Rescue and the amateur<br />
radio emergency communications<br />
group will be deployed in the<br />
Ashley River area, near Rangiora,<br />
to train and search. <strong>The</strong> Fernside<br />
20-year-old was last seen at 11pm<br />
on December 1, where she left her<br />
family home on foot.<br />
QUARRY AIR RESULTS<br />
<strong>The</strong> results of the Yaldhurst<br />
quarries air monitoring<br />
programme will be released in<br />
July. Environment Canterbury<br />
has been monitoring the air<br />
quality in the area after concerns<br />
from residents about the health<br />
effects of quarry dust. ECan says<br />
monitoring would take place for<br />
three months over the windiest<br />
and driest months. <strong>The</strong> results<br />
from these will be averaged across<br />
the year and compared against<br />
the long-term average guideline.<br />
<strong>The</strong> next steps would depend on<br />
the results.<br />
SHOW JUMPERS AT HAGLEY<br />
Some of the country’s leading<br />
show jumpers will return to<br />
North Hagley Park on Sunday<br />
for the second Jump for Cancer<br />
charity event. <strong>The</strong> competition<br />
will support the New Zealand<br />
Breast Cancer Foundation. In its<br />
second year, it is the brainchild of<br />
cancer survivor Lisa Tennekoon.<br />
It will run from noon and feature<br />
40 of the country’s top show<br />
jumping riders, including Rose<br />
Alfed and Anna Nalder. General<br />
admission is free.<br />
BOMB SCARE<br />
A mussel buoy prompted a bomb<br />
scare on Waimairi Beach on<br />
Tuesday. Police were called to the<br />
scene at 10.15am after being told<br />
a “suspicious package” had been<br />
found by a member of the public.<br />
When officers arrived they found<br />
it was a mussel buoy. <strong>The</strong> bomb<br />
squad wasn’t sent to the scene.<br />
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