thestar.com — Erica Klintworth and Alec Brown walked out of the New Zealand wilderness on Sunday after a snowstorm trapped them for nine days. Alec Brown/AP WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND-Two U.S. students trapped in the New Zealand wilderness by a snowstorm trekked back out to safety after surviving their nine-day ordeal by rationing their meagre supplies of trail mix and warming themselves in hot springs.