Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn't so lucky. Now the mountain has given up some of its secretsWhen mountaineer Chris Hill found a backpack with an old camera in it on the Hooker Glacier - an 11km chunk of ice on New Zealand's South Island - he was intrigued and decided to get the film inside developed.Hooker is at the base of Aoraki (Mount Cook), in a national park of icy peaks where hundreds of climbers have died, dozens of them never to be found. Continue reading...
Photos from 'beyond the grave': camera discovery reveals climber's last images before fatal avalanche
1. září 2021 19:45
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Zdroj: The Guardian