’COPTER RESCUE
(From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, January 13.
Unable to move because of severe pains in the back, a youth who lay in the snow at 7200 ft on the Boys Glacier, at the head of the Ball Glacier, in the Mount Cook National Park, was flown by helicopter to Mount Cook at 8 o’clock this evening. He is Roderick Salfinger, aged 17, an Australian. He was treated by Dr P. W. Law, of Twizel, and kept at Mount Cook overnight for observation.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopter arrived at Mount Cook at 7.30.
The helicopter left for the Boys Glacier at 7.40, and, with the assistance of a park ranger, the youth was put aboard the machine, which hovered in mild turbulence. Another member of Mr Salfinger’s climbing party, which was organised by Alpine Guides (Mount Cook), Ltd, had made the youth as comfortable as possible and then
descended to the Ball Hut (3402 ft half a mile south of the Ball Glacier and 12 miles from the Hermitage, and alerted park headquarters. , The senior ranger (Mr C. S. Irwin) said the rescue was made in fine weather, with moderate winds. It would have taken at least a day and a half for stretcher bearers to carry the youth out.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33741, 14 January 1975, Page 1
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