Few people in New Zealand, despite its long mountaineering tradition, or elsewhere, are likely to remember the names of 16 Sherpas who lost their lives recently .

Nepal has named two Himalayan peaks near Mount Everest after Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and opened them to foreigners for climbing.

I'm sure I can speak for all of our World Vision team when I say that if it hadn't been for our porters and guides, none of us would have come close to climbing Mt Kilimanjaro last year.

Four Kiwis were among a climbing group on Mt Everest when a deadly avalanche struck on Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese advance party guides and leaving four others missing.

The moment Matt Stewart clicked his safety harness on to the line, he realised his mistake. It very nearly cost him his life.

A contractor is dead after his ute plunged about 170 metres down a scree bank near the Mt Hutt ski area in poor conditions yesterday.

Mt Hutt ski area staff were first on the scene of a fatal crash which claimed the life of a man they knew, and worked with, this morning.

A little piece of Sir Edmund Hillary's family history - a century-old villa belonging to his grandmother - was removed from its site in Mt Eden last week.

Police say they are confident the body recovered from Nelson Lakes National Park yesterday afternoon is that of missing British tramper Andrew Ian Wyatt.

Search and rescue teams looking for a British tramper have found a body at the bottom of a 100m cliff.

The skier who witnessed his fellow adventurer and "great friend" plunge to his death near the summit of Aoraki-Mt Cook has given a harrowing account of what happened.

The family of an outdoor adventurer who fell 300m down a South Island glacier are worried as she has yet to recover consciousness after Sunday's accident.

A Kiwi skier was shocked to discover his Swedish skiing partner had fallen to his death on Aoraki-Mt Cook just days after they set a new record together.

Ice picks were held up in a guard of honour as the caskets of climbers Nicole Sutton and Hiroki Ogawa left a church in Auckland today following their joint funeral.

The New Zealand Alpine Club will carry out an independent review of its trip to Mt Taranaki after two climbers died over Labour weekend, it was announced today.

A huge avalanche crashed frighteningly close to a rescue party as they treated a woman who had fallen some 300 metres down a Canterbury glacier after her snow anchor apparently detached.

Alpine experts say conditions on Mt Taranaki can turn within minutes, and whether climbers make it down alive or not depends solely on the decisions they make.

They died side by side - sending a final text expressing fears for survival. Today rescuers have been able to winch the pair off Mt Taranaki.

The conditions have been atrocious. Mr Smith and some of his team, him grey with fatigue and his hands still not fully functioning, ponder at how she could have lasted so long.

Beyond its urban attractions and historical draws, England's Lake District offers natural beauty to rival even the joys of home, writes Nic Hamilton.

A New Zealand climber has broken a women's speed record for free climbing a world-famous US peak.

A top female New Zealand rock climber is gearing up to attempt a daring world- record free climb - and beat her male rivals on the way.

A Search and Rescue team made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to save a man who plunged 200m down an icy Mt Cook slope.

On a Himalayan journey, Winston Aldworth has his breath taken away by the scale of Everest.

This is the story of New Zealanders Marty Schmidt and his son Denali, who died trying to summit the world's most dangerous mountain.

Images from Marty and Delani Schmidt's attempted climb of K2.

Despite a number of avalanches on The Remarkables mountain range in recent years it is not considered a danger zone, says a mountain safety expert.

Since the birth of his first child this year Jamie Vinton-Boot had toned down his risky mountain climbing. He was killed yesterday by an avalanche.