Missing Canadian, US climbers presumed dead after fall on New Zealand mountain

Three climbers from the United States and Canada who went missing on New Zealand's highest mountain last week are believed to have died after a fall, police said on Friday. U.S. nationals Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and a Canadian man who has not been named by police, flew by helicopter on Saturday to a camp on Mount Cook, or Aoraki, with plans to summit the 3,724-metre mountain. The three men did not show up for their return flight on Monday morning, triggering the search-and-rescue effort. Items belonging to the men were found on Tuesday before the search was called off due to bad weather, only resuming on Friday. "We do not believe that the men have survived. We believe they have taken a fall, this is certainly not the news we wanted to share today," Vicki Walker, New Zealand police inspector investigating the men's disappearance, told a news conference on Friday. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10905033/canadian-u-s-climbers-presumed-dead-new-zealand-mountain/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews