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image captionBritons Peter Kirkwood and Richard Phillips were both experienced climbers
Tributes have been paid to a new father who died while climbing a mountain in New Zealand.
Peter Kirkwood, 33, and fellow Brit Richard Phillips, 46, died while climbing Taranaki Maunga earlier this month.
Dr Kirkwood, a Cambridge graduate, was born and raised in Cardiff before moving abroad.
His family said: He was a loyal and adventurous soul, who will be dearly missed.
Dr Kirkwood was a keen mountaineer, who met his wife-to-be, Kerrie Ann at the University of Cambridge Hillwalking Club, while completing a PhD in geotechnical engineering.
Welshman who had just become a dad dies on mountain trek Adventurous soul and scientist Dr Peter Kirkwood, 33, was trekking with a colleague on an 8,200ft mountain in New Zealand when both men tragically died
Dr Peter Kirkwood, from Cyncoed in Cardiff, had recently become a father (Image: Wales News Service)
A new dad with an “adventurous soul” was killed with a colleague while trekking on an mountain in New Zealand.
Geologist Dr Peter Kirkwood, 33, had travelled to the 8,200ft mountain for research with colleague Richard Phillips.
The alarm was raised when one of the climbers made an emergency call to say the other had fallen. Both were found dead the next day.
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Police have today recovered the bodies of two men who died while climbing Taranaki Maunga on Tuesday night. The formal identification process is still underway to confirm the men's identities, however Police believe them to be missing men Peter Kirkwood .
Richard Phillips and Peter Kirkwood died while trying to summit Taranaki Maunga. (Composite image) He was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, and the couple, who met at university, spent time working, skiing and climbing in the US, before moving to New Zealand in 2018. Kirkwood had climbed “numerous peaks” in the European Alps, Scottish Highlands, North American Rockies, and New Zealand’s Southern Alps. He was looking forward to introducing his baby daughter, Elaine Sierra, to the mountains the family “loved so much”, Kerrie Ann Kirkwood said. “He was a loyal, considerate and adventurous soul, who will be dearly missed by his friends in the UK, the US, and in Christchurch.