SUPPLIED Trip leader Joe Nawalaniec has extensive experience in mountaineering (File photo). ROSA WOODS/Stuff Coroner Peter Ryan on day one of the inquest into Janet Nye’s death in India in 2018. “A strong contributing factor [in Nye’s death] was that a leader was not available to get Jan down,” Skidmore said. “He did not once mention Jan’s name, acknowledge her passing, nor mention the circumstances of her death,” Young said. Patrick Whittle/Stuff The Indian region of Ladakh, where the ill-fated New Zealand trekking trip visited.

Source: Stuff April 29, 2021 00:45 UTC