On Friday , 36 - year - old Duncan Raite died after slipping and falling about 60 metres ( 200 feet ) from a ridge .
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On Friday , 36 - year - old Duncan Raite died after <m> slipping </m> and falling about 60 metres ( 200 feet ) from a ridge .
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September 15 , 2013 11 : 26 pm
Australian , English climbers fall to their deaths in New Zealand mountains
One Australian and one English climber have fallen to their deaths in New Zealand .
Police Inspector Dave Gaskin said Monday the two incidents on consecutive days in the Aoraki - Mt . Cook National Park were not related and were not due to bad weather .
He says they come as a reminder that climbers need to use extreme caution .
On Friday , 36 - year - old Duncan Raite died after <m> slipping </m> and falling about 60 metres ( 200 feet ) from a ridge .
The New Zealand - born Australian was planning to do some ski touring .
He ’ d been dropped off by helicopter and was walking to a hut when he fell .
On Saturday , 32 - year - old Englishman Robert Buckley fell about 600 metres ( 2 , 000 feet ) while climbing to a small hut on Mount Sefton .
Gaskin said Buckley was wearing crampons but was inexperienced .