The station reported that the missing man was hiking with two other men when an avalanche carried all three about 1, 200 feet down a slope at speeds of more than 50 mph.
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The bodies of the victims, who all had avalanche beacons, were recovered by search teams.
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All of them were wearing avalanche beacons and proper equipment, according to the sheriff's office.
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The sixth member of the party, who survived the avalanche in Glencoe, said they were all "experienced winter walkers".
All of them were wearing avalanche beacons and proper equipment, they said.
"Flooding, snow, high winds, avalanche risk, slips and rock falls can all occur at any time of the year, " says Christine Officer, program manager at the DOC office in Te Anau (a two-hour bus ride from Queenstown), which manages the Milford Track.
Male climbers Yoshiaki Kato, 64, and Tamao Suzuki, 63, and female climbers Masako Suda, 50, and Michiko Suzuki, 56, of the Miyagi Workers Alpine Federation expedition are all presumed to have died in the avalanche, the park service said.
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