Rescued after a month, Czech hiker recounts friend's death in New Zealand

[WorldNews]

(Reuters) - A Czech woman who spent nearly a month alone in a warden's hut on a remote New Zealand hiking track after her male partner was killed in a fall spoke of her harrowing ordeal on Friday. Pavlina Pizova said she heard Ondrej Petr's last breath and spent two freezing nights beside the body before leaving to find shelter at a hut at Lake Mackenzie on the country's South Island. "As you can imagine the last month was very harrowing for me," a pale and emotional Pizova told a news conference at Queenstown's police station.

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