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Two Australian climbers have been rescued from Mt Avalanche in Fiordland.
The pair had set off for a day trip in Mt Aspiring National Park early on Friday, and police were alerted when they failed to return.
An emergency locator beacon was activated on Saturday morning, and a helicopter was able to locate the two climbers a short distance from the ridge of Mt Avalanche.
A specialist search and rescue team was sent in and Inspector Warren Kemp from the Christchurch police says the climbers were brought down from where they were trapped and taken to French Pass Hut.
Kemp says they were in a good enough condition to resume their climbing holiday.
On Friday police named the Romanian man who fell to his death while climbing in the Aoraki Mount Cook National Park earlier in the week.
He was 27-year-old Adrian Iordache, who had recently been studying at Canterbury University.
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