Climbers’ whereabouts unknown
The Twizel police want a West German couple who went climbing in the Mount Cook National Park to contact them. Peter . Kemper and Susanne Rossler indicated on Saturday that they were going to Hooker Hut on the west side of Hooker glacier below Copland Pass and that they would be coming out last Monday. They had not reported their return by last evening. The chief ranger at park headquarters (Mr H. A. Youngman) said there was no reason to believe the two climbers were lost in the mountains. Mr Youngman said they could have changed their plans and failed to notify park headquarters. Radio contact had been made with the huts on Saturday and Sunday but no-one was in them.
“From radio contact. it would appear that they never got to the hut and it could be that they have left Mount Cook Village,” he said. Sergeant G. Rutledge of the Twizel Police said last evening that park rangers would today check the area the couple had been climbing in. There was no reason for concern, he said.
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