Whakaari Management Limited was found guilty of health and safety charges relating to the 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption, which killed 22 people and injured 25 more.
A large group of students and instructors from India's famed Nehru Institute of Mountaineering were descending after a training climb on Draupadi ka Danda (5,670m) when the avalanche struck them.
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