The two Australians who died in a New Zealand climbing accident have been named

Australians Brett Lentfer and James Spaile have been named as the victims who fell to their deaths during a mountain climbing accident in New Zealand.

View overlooking Lake Wakatipu and The Remarkables. Source: AAP

New Zealand police have named two Australians as the men who died after falling hundreds of metres in a horror climbing accident on Wednesday.

Brett Alexander Lentfer, 62, and James Harry Spaile, 44, were killed after their ropes were severed during a climb near Queenstown on New Zealand's South Island.

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