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Speaker 1: A happy ending for a Tatadoo tramper David Graham and

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Speaker 1: his dog Winnie. They found themselves on the multi day

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Speaker 1: tramp in the Tatadora Rangers and freezing conditions, had to

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Speaker 1: be airlifted out by an Air Force chopper in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the night. No, lest this is Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 1: David Grahame's with me now, David, good evening.

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Speaker 2: Good evening. How's it going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good to have you on the show. How are

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Speaker 1: you feeling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm feeling very good. Thank you. Sitting in my

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Speaker 2: last warm car in Lower hut here, it's it's a

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Speaker 2: good place.

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Speaker 1: To be, Okay. First of all, why were you tramping

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Speaker 1: when it was so damned cold?

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Speaker 2: It's just the I suppose when you get up into

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Speaker 2: the mountains and you yeah, you get to see the

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Speaker 2: Lord's creation from that kind of height, fifteen hundred meters,

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Speaker 2: you get to see those sunsets. It's a pretty special

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Speaker 2: place to be. And there's yeah, there's almost nowhere else

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Speaker 2: I'd rather be. When when things are going to plan,

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 1: You were well, you were well prepared, you know, overnight gear,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. When did you realize something was wrong?

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Speaker 2: So I realized I wasn't going to make it to

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Speaker 2: the Divvy, and so with the cloud covering, I decided, right,

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Speaker 2: I'll just pick up here for the night. It was

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Speaker 2: about I think about thirteen and a half, sorry, thirteen

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Speaker 2: hundred meters at that point, and then about nine nine

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Speaker 2: pm the cloud lifters and yeah, dropped a whole bunch

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Speaker 2: of johmy, which froze up pretty quick. When my dog

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Speaker 2: started shaking, I realized that it was Yeah, the temperature

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Speaker 2: was pretty yeah, getting dropping pretty quick. And so at

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Speaker 2: that point I got in touch with the emergency services.

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Speaker 1: Probably a good call because nest, you thought you'd wait

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Speaker 1: till the morning and then yeah, your sleeping bags freezing.

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Speaker 1: You know, things aren't looking good. So what how did

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Speaker 1: the rescue go?

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Speaker 2: Just amazing? And this is you know, I'm not a

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Speaker 2: huge fan of having you know, being on radio is

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Speaker 2: getting caught out like this, but I just the reason

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Speaker 2: I said yes to coming on on ears just to

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Speaker 2: say thank you to the New Zealand Defense Force and

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Speaker 2: to the police. And they honestly just do such a

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Speaker 2: good job and they made it really simple. They were

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Speaker 2: just absolutely superb. So I couldn't thank them thank me more.

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Speaker 2: I got in touch with the with the police coordinator

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Speaker 2: at about two am and said, look, conditions getting pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: I'm really cold up here. A text that pretty well

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Speaker 2: just said that, And so they change from getting search

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Speaker 2: and rescue to come in, they do daylight rescues. So

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Speaker 2: the police officer in charge got in touch with NDDF

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Speaker 2: and they organized one of the Air Force choppers to

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Speaker 2: come in. They arrived I think about four point thirty am.

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Speaker 2: Once the dog up first, which is good, that's the

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Speaker 2: that's the priorities, cute little kelpie. And they came back

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Speaker 2: down and got me, yeah, straight into a hot chop

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Speaker 2: and in a crunchy bar, which was exactly what I

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Speaker 2: needed to get my sugars back up and feel uncomfortable.

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Speaker 2: But you're just honestly just a yeah. All thanks to

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Speaker 2: those those guys and girls that looked after me. I

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Speaker 2: really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you're a very lucky guy. And as you say,

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Speaker 1: thanks to those rescuers who did the hard work. David

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Speaker 1: Graham rescued Tramper from the Tatadors and dog Winnie both

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Speaker 1: safe and well. For more from Hither Duplessy, Allen Drive,

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