FYI
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This came from aus.bushwalking
the URL for the
current story is
http://www.news.ninemsn.com.au/01_national/story_22117.asp, but they
change pretty often so here’s the text:
Climbers freeze to death in Blue Mountains waterfall
AAP —
Two abseilers died when their ropes snagged trapping the pair in the
freezing waters of a waterfall in the Kanangra Boyd National Park in the
Blue Mountains, police said today.
The pair from the Newcastle University Mountaineering Club are
believed to have died from exposure during the climb down the Corra
Beanga Falls on Saturday night, a police spokesman said.
“They became stuck somehow and were unable to be freed by their
friends and of course water in winter in the Oberon area is extremely
cold and unfortunately they perished,” he said.
“We can’t directly speculate it was hypothermia…the bodies haven’t
been through a post mortem yet and that is for the coroner to
determine.”
The pair were part of a group of nine bushwalkers on an abseiling and
canyoning trip.
The bodies are still in the national park and would be recovered
tomorrow, the spokesman said.
Their seven colleagues were winched out of the park by police
helicopter late today.