Mountain rescue

A mountain rescue team had to be assembled after the two men got into difficulty in Minus Two Gully.
Tom Ballard was climbing Nanga Parbat with Italian Daniele Nardi when he was last heard from a week ago.
500ft fatal fall on New Year’s Day is second death on Britain’s highest peak in recent weeks.
An Australian soldier who dug a snow cave to survive below-freezing conditions for a week on a New Zealand mountain was rescued on Friday. Rescue authorities said they plucked 29-year-old Terry Harch from Mount Aspiring on the South Island in what they described as a "snatch and grab" mission involving three helicopter.