Talkback and interviews reflecting on the Elim Christian College Mangetepopo canyoning tragedy in 2008.
[The following is sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elim_Christian_College , 14/4/15]
On 15 April 2008, six students and a teacher from the school died in a flash flood while canyoning the Mangatepopo Stream in Tongariro National Park. In 2011 Principal Murray Burton was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and the teacher and one of the six students who died given medals for bravery.
[The following is sourced from http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/total-recall]
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