Published: May 21, 2019
Coroner finds Trevor Tolputt did not have adequate clothes or equipment and rejected help that could have ensured his safety
A bushwalker who died on a popular Tasmanian track in the middle of winter “tragically brought about his own demise by a series of poor decisions”, a coroner has found.
Trevor Tolputt, 55, was just 1.5 kilometres from a hut at the end of the Overland track at Lake St Clair when he succumbed to hypothermia on 14 July 2016. He had been walking alone for six days without a beanie or gloves in freezing, snowy weather.
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