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Queenstown developer Rod Nielsen's business practices should be restricted and he must bear responsibility for commercial irresponsibility, says the High Court.

A Coroner has been unable to establish what led an Israeli tourist to leave tramping route for an avalanche track where she broke her neck.

A snowboarder killed in an avalanche near Queenstown had recently met someone, fallen in love and was in a 'really happy space'.

A Queenstown man was killed at Coronet Peak yesterday when a member of his group triggered an avalanche that buried him in over two metres of snow.

A snowboarder died in hospital after being rescued from an avalanche at Queenstown's Coronet Peak ski resort last night.