Search for climbers to be reassessed

A helicopter search for the bodies of three climbers missing on New Zealand's Mount Cook will be reassessed on Sunday.

A search for an Australian and two German climbers feared dead on New Zealand's Mount Cook will be reassessed on Sunday afternoon.

Sydney doctor Michael Bishop, 53, along with Johann Viellehner, 58, and his son Raphael, 27, from Germany, have not been seen since Monday morning.

Searches on Tuesday and Wednesday were hampered by bad weather and nothing has been found in sweeps by helicopters since.

The men's families have been told the bodies may never be recovered.

The search will be reassessed on Sunday afternoon by police and Department of Conservation staff.

More than 230 people have been killed in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park - 78 of them while climbing the peak.


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