Searchers have found the body of a Melbourne man who went missing whilst climbing a New Zealand mountain. Alan Beck was 49 and is the father of two children. He was a New Zealand Native who was living in Melbourne, Australia. The mountain climber had gone missing after filthy weather had forced him and three other mountain climbers to find shelter on Mount Aspiring near Wanaka on the South Island of New Zealand.  His body was found about five hundred meters from the tent site where the other climbers were sheltering and apparently he fell one hundred meters to his death on the Bonar Glacier.

Alan Beck had abandoned the tent that he had been sharing with the other mountain climbers on Sunday morning. He had left the tent without any water or food and just taken off. Police at Wanaka had said that his deceased body had been located yesterday and unfortunately he had passed away. He had been found on the mountain about two thirds up the peak of Mount Aspiring.

A spokesman for LandSAR Wanaka, a search and rescue group for the area said the Alan Beck’s body was located at around midday at about two thousands meters.  It was a pity that the missing mountain climber did not stay sheltered and went missing on Sunday in such terrible weather.  

 Source: AAP

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