WELLINGTON: The bodies of three Canadians who died when their plane crashed into an Antarctic mountain will not be recovered until October at the earliest, officials said Monday.
Conditions on the frozen continent were too dangerous for an immediate recovery operation, with the plane's cockpit embedded in snow and ice at a height of 3,900 metres (13,000 feet), Antarctica New Zealand (ANZ) said.
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