earchers will resume their efforts to reach a crashed helicopter on Fox Glacier on Sunday morning, but bad weather could again hamper their attempts to recover the victims' bodies.
The Alpine Adventures chopper went down in a "heavily crevassed" area late on Saturday morning, killing all seven on board.
Flown by local pilot Mitch Gameren, the helicopter was carrying six tourists: two Australians and four people from the United Kingdom.
Weather prevented emergency services from reaching the site Saturday, and police were planning a recovery operation on Sunday morning.
But poor weather was forecast to continue, and visibility was likely to be poor, Metservice meteorologist Emma Blades said.
"It's going to be wet and fairly windy as well ... [It] won't be a very clear day, that's for sure
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