Photo: Facebook via RNZPhilanthropist and adventurer Jo Morgan is returning to conquer Mount Hicks near Mount Cook and will take with her the ashes of one of the mountain guides who was killed when he attempted the climb last year. Ms Morgan narrowly escaped death after an avalanche killed her two close friends accompanying her in October. Martin Hess and Wolfgang Maier died in October last year when they became trapped in an avalanche near Aoraki/Mt Cook. Ms Morgan said she wants to take some of Wolfgang's ashes up the mountain of his last climb because it's unfinished business. "His partner wanted me to take up the climb, she wants me to finish this endeavour for him.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 15, 2019 20:48 UTC