{"id":36319,"date":"2021-09-02T02:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/photos-from-beyond-the-grave-camera-discovery-reveals-climbers-last-images-before-fatal-avalanche"},"modified":"2021-09-02T02:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:30:02","slug":"photos-from-beyond-the-grave-camera-discovery-reveals-climbers-last-images-before-fatal-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36319","title":{"rendered":"Photos from \u2018beyond the grave\u2019: camera discovery reveals climber\u2019s last images before fatal avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn\u2019t so lucky. Now the mountain has given up some of its secrets<\/p>\n<p>When mountaineer Chris Hill found a backpack with an old camera in it on the Hooker Glacier \u2013 an 11km chunk of ice on New Zealand\u2019s South Island \u2013 he was intrigued and decided to get the film inside developed.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/photos-from-beyond-the-grave-camera-discovery-reveals-climbers-last-images-before-fatal-avalanche\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn\u2019t 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,1058,65,759,239,760,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-avalanches","category-environment","category-glaciers","category-mountaineering","category-mountains","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36320,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36319\/revisions\/36320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}