TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY
Feb 27, 2022
2 minutes
by LINDA HERRICK
Daylight had just broken on October 31, 2018, when a helicopter search party found Wellington climber Jo Morgan. She and her two guides were climbing Mt Hicks, in the Southern Alps, when an avalanche swept them down the mountain.
Morgan was saved by an air pocket in the snow. It took her an hour to dig her way out before she could activate her
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