Police can confirm that the tramper who died while hiking in Arthur’s Pass over the weekend was a 37-year-old woman.
The woman was reported missing at about 7:30pm on Saturday after failing to return from a day hike in the Arthurs Pass National Park.
She had been hiking the Mt Aicken track, from the Devils Punchbowl Track carpark on SH 73, with a friend but the pair became separated and the woman failed to return to the car park as expected.
A search and rescue operation was launched involving Police SAR, Alpine Rescue, Land SAR and a helicopter.
Her body was recovered at about 1:30pm yesterday.
Police continue to make enquiries in relation to the death on behalf of the Coroner and the Coroner will release their findings in due course.
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