Here at HOB we’ve been following this on the evening news for the last few nights.
Extremely sad and entirely avoidable.
We have had biblical rain for nigh on two months in NSW and the local authorities in the Blue Mountains should have closed all these trails, no ifs no buts
I do hope their relatives pursue this in the courts
The Times reports
British lawyer and son die in Australian landslide
The bodies of a successful British lawyer and his youngest son have been recovered from the Blue Mountains in Australia following a freak landslide this week.
Mehraab Nazir, 49, and his nine-year-old son died while hiking in the mountains, about 60 miles west of Sydney, on Monday afternoon.
The couple’s 15-year-old daughter miraculously escaped unharmed. She managed to guide rescuers to the scene in a treacherous part of Blue Mountains National Park after making a frantic phone call to police, saying: “I don’t know where..
Read more at. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/landslide-kills-british-tourists-in-australia-gndj7v2xc
