A recovery team is camping out overnight in a hut above New Zealand's Fox Glacier to try and recover the remaining three bodies from Saturday's helicopter crash.
A 12-strong team from Alpine Cliff Rescue, police and drone operators landed on the glacier just after 11am local time on Wednesday.
However, crews were on the glacier less than an hour before the weather closed in, so the police disaster victim identification team will stay overnight at Chancellor Hut, spokeswoman Barbara Dunn said.
Some media reports suggested the team was stranded, but Ms Dunn said police decided to leave them on the glacier, and they were well stocked with provisions.
The recovery would be attempted again at first light on Thursday, before an expected front of severe weather moved in, she said.
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Six tourists, including two Australians, and the New Zealand pilot were killed when the tourist flight crashed into the West Coast glacier on Saturday.
The bodies of three women and a man have so far been recovered but bad weather has hampered efforts to retrieve the remaining bodies.
The victims have been named as Australians Leang Sovannmony, 27, and Josephine Gibson, 29, Britons Andrew Virco, 50, Katharine Walker, 51, Nigel Edwin Charlton, 66, and Cynthia Charlton, 70, and Kiwi pilot Mitchell Paul Gameren, 28, from Queenstown.
Police have not yet said whose bodies have been recovered.
