Japanese Climber Saved on New Zealand Peak

A Japanese climber was rescued Thursday after surviving five days in blizzard conditions on a North Island mountain where six soldiers froze to death on a training mission earlier in the week.

Joji Iwama, 27, who said he had listened apprehensively on a portable radio to details of the soldiers’ deaths and his owned stalled rescue efforts, was found on Mt. Ruapehu, 200 miles north of Wellington.