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Kiwi Climbers Rescued After 8 Days Trapped | Auckland News
Two Kiwi climbers, Keanu Isaksson and Luca Zylstra-Law, were trapped for eight days in a deadly Solomon Islands ravine after falling into a crevasse during a torrential downpour. Perched precariously under a waterfall with no shelter, they battled rockfalls and dwindling battery life—sending reassuring messages to their families even as they shivered and soaked. When those messages stopped, their worried moms knew something was dire. Rescue was delayed by weather, but when skies cleared and a new helicopter crew arrived, the climbers—unharmed but exhausted—cleared a tree to make room for…
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