Due to the items of luggage recovered and taking into account the passage of many days without communication since they were last seen last Saturday, the police of the Aoraki area exposed in a statement the assumption that the climbers did not survive a fall.

The exact location of the alleged accident suffered by Americans Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and a Canadian whose identity has not been released at the request of the family, has not yet been determined.

Although they are three experienced mountaineers, the Aoraki-Mt Cook National Park faced difficult weather conditions these days that forced even to suspend on several occasions the search by land and air, activated by the New Zealand police since Monday.

The police have formally suspended the active search for the climbers until they receive reliable information on the possible location of the climbers.

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