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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - An American student who clambered down ice-covered rocks in the dark seeking help after he and two climbing partners plummeted 1,600 feet down a glacier was credited Wednesday with saving the life of one of his friends.
The third climber was killed in Monday's fall, which occurred in Mount Aspiring National Park on New Zealand's South Island, said Wanaka police Constable Mike Johnston.
Jesse Kattmeyer suffered a broken collarbone and concussion in the fall, but tended to his badly battered partner Machael Gavillot before trekking to a mountainside hut in the remote region to call for help via radio, Johnston said.
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