The death of a man found in Mount Ruapehu's Crater Lake has been referred to the Coroner.
On Friday night, a 39-year-old Taupo resident was reported missing to police.
The man had left his home the day before to go skiing at the Mount's Whakapapa skifield.
Initial inquiries confirmed the man's car was in the skifield carpark but he could not be located.
Due to bad weather, no searches of the mountain were able to be conducted that night.