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New Year honours 2024: The Southern recipients

Our reporters talked to every Southern recipient of a 2024 New Year honour.

'Lessons to be learnt' from Wellington woman's death while trekking with New Zealand company in India, coroner rules

Jan Nye was a nurse and avid tramper. Her trip of a lifetime to the Himalayas in 2018 ended in tragedy.

Indian guiding company had 'ultimate responsibility' for participant safety, Federated Mountain Clubs chairman tells inquest

Expert witness cites 'poor' decision-making in lead up to Janet "Jan" Nye's death at altitude during NZ-run trek in October 2018.

Expert highlights 'missed opportunity' to descend before Wellington woman's death on Indian trek

'Missed opportunity': How the chance to help Wellington woman off an Indian mountain is viewed after her death

Katarina Williams05:00, May 01 2021 Supplied Janet Nye, pictured here at Waitarere, a few months before her October 2018 trekking death in Ladakh, India. The man who led a trekking trip to India, in which a Wellington woman died after developing acute mountain sickness, concedes the “window” to help her descend from high altitude in the hours before she died was missed. But despite being appointed to lead by the trip organiser, the Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (FMC) Travel Club, Joe Nawalaniec insists “ultimate responsibility” didn’t rest with him. For Wellington nurse and avid tramper, Janet “Jan” Nye, 68, the journey of a lifetime in 2018 became a journey that ultimately ended her life.