Thread: Man rescued from Ureweras

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104...ks-in-the-bush

jst saw the photos on the herald website....curious ,what hut was that? im picking a few on here know this area quite well

Originally Posted by scotty

jst saw the photos on the herald website....curious ,what hut was that? im picking a few on here know this area quite well

It looks very like Waiotukapiti Hut on the Waiau river, may be wrong but that's very like what I remember!!

Originally Posted by Pistov

It looks very like Waiotukapiti Hut on the Waiau river, may be wrong but that's very like what I remember!!

Funny that was my only guess also.

Its defintely not Te Wai

A good outcome once again thanks to Greenleigh rescue chopper, and to think the shiny bums are thinking of scrapping the taupo based services FFS

Just been through me photo file, willing to bet me mother in laws inheritance that it's Waiotukapiti--(Te Waikapiti)!!!

Hmm......Lucky chap

Mt Cook funny... not funny being in there with no food and no pants on....
Cold enough up the Plateau Saturday without being another 30 kms in them mountains. We didn’t recognise the hut, anybody?


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Very Lucky indeed.

and the powers that be want to reduce the number of rescue choppers out there.........

Article in the paper said Te Waiotukapiti

And this is where modern technology causes natural selection to stagnate. This guy is just going to go out and do it again.
He could have just stayed out of the river. Three times. It's because he has a PLB, he feels safe enough to go and do stupid things.
After using it one time you should have the damn thing taken off you.

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

And this is where modern technology causes natural selection to stagnate. This guy is just going to go out and do it again.
He could have just stayed out of the river. Three times. It's because he has a PLB, he feels safe enough to go and do stupid things.
After using it one time you should have the damn thing taken off you.

Hypothermia makes the brain engage in some weird decisions.

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

And this is where modern technology causes natural selection to stagnate. This guy is just going to go out and do it again.
He could have just stayed out of the river. Three times. It's because he has a PLB, he feels safe enough to go and do stupid things.
After using it one time you should have the damn thing taken off you.

It might be because you are in a constant deluded state CH, and thinking not-normal to you is normal. But for us normal people it doesn't take too much exhaustion and loss of body heat to start to think not-normal. PLB or not, once exhausted and slightly hypothermic this chap was likely to make poor decisions.

As an aside, I understand that the term hyperthermia (being used by some in this thread) is elevated body temp, while hypothermia is decreased body temp. This chap would have been suffering from hypothermia.