A pair of walkers are lucky to be alive after being rescued in blizzards from a mountain in Tasmania. The overnight temperature was -5C, only rising to -3C in the daytime. 9News
They became disorientated in heavy snow and blizzards on the Zig Zag track, 400m from the summit of the mountain, which overlooks Hobart.
Snr Const Callum Herbert from Tasmania Police Search and Rescue said they were lucky to have survived. "The pair lost at night on the mountain, did not find shelter and would almost certainly have perished if it wasn't for the tenacity of the rescuers, they were very lucky," he said.
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