Japanese climber trapped in New Zealand rescued
2008-12-05 09:37:50 GMT2008-12-05 17:37:50 (Beijing Time)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Japanese climber Hideaki Nara is taken from a helicopter to hospital in Christchurch after his rescue from Mount Cook in New Zealand's South Island, Friday, Dec 5, 2008. Tokyo residents Hideaki Nara, 51, and his companion Kiyoshi Ikenouchi, 49, had been trapped for a week by bad weather on a ledge of the Empress Plateau on Aoraki also known as Mount Cook. Ikenouchi did not survive the ordeal. (AP Photo/Christchurch Press, Kirk Hargreaves)
Japanese climber Hideaki Nara is taken from a helicopter to hospital in Christchurch after his rescue from Mount Cook in New Zealand's South Island, Friday, Dec 5, 2008. Tokyo residents Hideaki Nara, 51, and his companion Kiyoshi Ikenouchi, 49, had been trapped for a week by bad weather on a ledge of the Empress Plateau on Aoraki also known as Mount Cook. Ikenouchi did not survive the ordeal. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Simon Baker)
Japanese climber Hideaki Nara waits on the side of Mount Cook for rescue by helicopter in New Zealand's South Island, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Tokyo residents Hideaki Nara, 51, and his companion Kiyoshi Ikenouchi, 49, had been trapped for a week by bad weather on a ledge of the Empress Plateau on Aoraki also known as Mount Cook. Ikenouchi did not survive the ordeal. (AP Photo/Christchurch Press,John Kirk Anderson,)
Tokyo residents Hideaki Nara, 51, and his companion Kiyoshi Ikenouchi, 49, had been trapped for a week by bad weather on a ledge of the Empress Plateau on Aoraki also known as Mount Cook. Ikenouchi did not survive the ordeal.
