Haast digger driver Peter Shields (52) with the machine he used to retrieve the body of Ashish Miranda (24) from under a massive ice fall at Fox Glacier yesterday evening. Photo by Marjorie Cook.
But on Thursday night, moving up to 100 tonnes of ice was all he was contemplating as dozens of Fox Glacier volunteers worked valiantly to retrieve the bodies of Melbourne brothers Ashish (24) and Akshay (22) Miranda from under large blocks of fallen ice.
"It was a lot of ice and big solid blocks and some of those were so hard the bucket would only just scratch it,'' he recalled.
