The body of a canyoner who died during a trip to the NSW Blue Mountains is to be retrieved by emergency services on Friday morning.
Six canyoners - two boys aged 13 and 15, two women aged 25 and 27 and two men aged 25 and 27 - were reported missing by relatives after they failed to return from a planned day trip to the Wollangambe Canyon on Tuesday.
Emergency services had been searching for the group for two days when a Polair helicopter located them, reportedly in two groups, in a canyon near Mount Wilson about 4.20pm (6.20pm NZT) yesterday.
The dead male was trapped under a rock fall, where officers from the Police Rescue Squad and special operation paramedics stayed overnight.
The crews will recover the body this morning.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported the deceased was the 15-year-old male, but police had not formally identified the body on Thursday night and did not release any details.
The five survivors were airlifted to a nearby airbase before being taken by ambulance to Nepean Hospital for medical examinations and treatment.
