Two climbers still missing at Mt Cook, two who died named

A search of the route taken by two missing climbers on Aoraki/Mt Cook has turned up no sign of the pair.

Bad weather has hampered the search for the climbers, who have been missing since Monday, but conditions improved enough for a helicopter to go up last night.

They followed the route the climbers took from Plateau hut and Linda glacier to the summit, but nothing was found.

The search resumed this morning.

Police have also named the two climbers who died in Fiordland last weekend.

They are 28-year-old Connor Scott McKenzie and 23-year-old Tanmay Shetankumar Bhati, who both lived in Australia.

In November, two climbers, Wanaka-based mountain guide Thomas Vialletet and his client, died on Aoraki Mt Cook after the two fell from the mountain's west ridge.