The family of climbers Nicole Sutton and Hiroki Ogawa saw marriage in their future. Instead, today, the couple’s bodies have been airlifted off Mt Egmont/Taranaki. A break in the weather allowed a recovery operation to begin at 6.50am today, Tuesday 29/10/2013. Air Force personnel dropped Alpine Cliff Rescue team members on the mountain this morning. They winched Ogawa and Sutton off the mountain and returned to New Plymouth. The recovery took just over an hour.
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