{"id":14628,"date":"2016-03-24T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=14628"},"modified":"2016-03-24T07:48:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:48:30","slug":"bodies-of-man-and-woman-found-on-ben-nevis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/bodies-of-man-and-woman-found-on-ben-nevis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of man and woman found on Ben Nevis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of a man and a woman have been discovered on Ben Nevis during the search for missing couple Rachel Slater and Tim Newton. The couple, who were in their twenties and from Bradford, were reported missing on 15 February after failing to return from a climbing trip on Ben Nevis, their empty tent was found behind the CIC hut.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_14447\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/couple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14447\" src=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/couple.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Slater and Tim Newton\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/couple.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/couple-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/couple-390x219.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Slater and Tim Newton<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nSearches have been ongoing in the area and earlier this week it was reported that an ice axe had been found. Police Scotland say that the process is currently ongoing to identify the bodies and that the couples&#8217; families have been informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of a man and a woman have been discovered on Ben Nevis during the search for missing couple Rachel Slater and Tim Newton. The couple, who were in their twenties and from Bradford, were reported missing on 15 February after failing to return from a climbing trip on Ben Nevis, their empty tent was found behind the CIC hut. Searches have been ongoing in the area and earlier this week it was reported that an ice axe had been found. Police Scotland say that the process is currently ongoing to identify the bodies and that the couples&#8217; families<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/bodies-of-man-and-woman-found-on-ben-nevis\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14629,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628\/revisions\/14629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}