Youth flown out from camping trip
A Christchurch youth who was rescued by helicopter from the Lake Sumner area yesterday is re* ported improving in the Christchurch Hospital. Keith Thian, aged 16. of Gloucester Street, had been unconscious and suffering from exposure when a Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois helicopter picked him up at 7.50 a.m.
The Iroquois landed in Hagley Park at 8.45 a.m., and the youth was transferred to an ambulance. He was reported to be in a fairly comfortable condition in the Christchurch Hospital last evening. The police will make inquiries to find out how the youth, a member of a Boys’ Brigade camping party,
came to suffer from exposure. The rescue mission was flown after two hunters found the camping party and saw the youth’s condition late on Thursday evening. The hunters walked out to Glynn Wye station, on the Lewis Pass road, and the police were alerted at 4.30 a.m.
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