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| New Zealand Police 'confident' body is of British hiker | New Zealand Police 'confident' body is of British hiker |
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| Rescuers in New Zealand are "confident" the body they have recovered at the bottom of a 300ft (100m) cliff is that of a missing British hiker. | Rescuers in New Zealand are "confident" the body they have recovered at the bottom of a 300ft (100m) cliff is that of a missing British hiker. |
| Andrew Wyatt, 41, from Cornwall, was last seen on 15 December when he set out on what was intended to be a one-day hike in a mountainous area of the South Island. | Andrew Wyatt, 41, from Cornwall, was last seen on 15 December when he set out on what was intended to be a one-day hike in a mountainous area of the South Island. |
| The body has yet to be formally identified. | The body has yet to be formally identified. |
| Bad weather had previously hampered the search effort, police said. | Bad weather had previously hampered the search effort, police said. |
| The body was found on Friday by a search and rescue team below Lake Constance Bluff. | The body was found on Friday by a search and rescue team below Lake Constance Bluff. |
| Search co-ordinator PC Dave Cogger said the man had an "unsurvivable" fall. | Search co-ordinator PC Dave Cogger said the man had an "unsurvivable" fall. |
| "Police say they are confident the body recovered from Nelson Lakes National Park on Friday afternoon is that of missing British man Andrew Ian Wyatt," a New Zealand police spokesman said. | "Police say they are confident the body recovered from Nelson Lakes National Park on Friday afternoon is that of missing British man Andrew Ian Wyatt," a New Zealand police spokesman said. |
| Mr Wyatt, from Penryn, had arrived in New Zealand in November and was walking the 1,900 mile (3,000km) Te Araroa Trail, which runs the entire length of the country. |