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Alec Brown and Erica Klintworth, both 21, returned to Christchurch yesterday famished but healthy. The two University of Wisconsin students, who were on a foreign study programme in New Zealand, had planned to hike and camp for a few days in a mountain range on the South Island. But heavy rains and a snowstorm prevented them from being able to cross a river and return.
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