Trapped for 20 hours in New Zealand snowstorm

38 stranded – ferried out by snowcat

Monday May 23, 2016 – After spending nearly 20 hours trapped in a Central Otago snow storm, 38 people were ferried out on snowcats to waiting four wheel drives and a bus, which took them to Roxburgh for medical checks, food and hot drinks.

The 4-wheel-drive expedition had endured an exhausting ordeal trapped in their cars on a Central Otago high country road after becoming snowed in on Sunday afternoon by blizzard conditions.

Daniel, one of those rescued, said they went up equipped with the right gear but got caught out by the weather.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11643043

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/80264198/Police-free-vehicles-on-Otagos-Pig-Route-as-heavy-snow-falls

Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link

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