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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A young American mountain climber was killed and another seriously injured in a fall on a New Zealand glacier, police said Tuesday.
Three 20-year-old Americans, all students at Lincoln University in Christchurch, fell about 1,600 feet Monday night while descending a glacier in Mount Aspiring National Park on New Zealand's South Island, said Wanaka police Constable Mike Johnston.
Police identified the victim as Austin Hanchey of Fairview, Tenn., an environmental conservation student at Idaho State University on a semester of study in New Zealand. Police have not yet named the two survivors.
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