NZers can now have their say on whether the South Ridge of Aoraki Mount Cook should be renamed as 'Hillary Ridge'. The Geographic Board today opened a three month-public consultation.

It's been a tough year for Mt Hutt skifield, with three deaths, an avalanche and now 1200 skiers trapped overnight in bad weather.

Around 1200 mountaingoers are still trapped at Mt Hutt skifield, with conditions still too dangerous to leave.

After three deaths in three months and yesterday's avalanche on Mt Hutt, a snowboarder is now in Christchurch Hospital with serious head injuries after another accident today.

A skier caught in an avalanche on Mt Hutt has described how he fought to stay on top of the snow.

An avalanche closed Mt Hutt today but the mountain has now reopened and though some skiers were partially buried, no one was hurt.

A climber plunged 300m to his death in front of dozens of horrified skiers on Mt Ruapehu yesterday.

A Christchurch man has died from injuries after falling about 300m at Mt Hutt Ski Area, the third skiing fatality on the mountain this year.

A prominent ridge on Aoraki/Mount Cook, first climbed by Sir Edmund Hillary more than 60 years ago, is proposed to be renamed Hillary Ridge.

The Auckland City Council has been accused of hypocrisy after ignoring the rules designed to protect the area's volcanic cones.

British climber Peter Kinloch was on the roof of the world, in bright sunlight, taking pictures of the Himalayas below. Minutes later, he went blind.

A campaign is underway to try and prove a British climber beat Sir Edmund Hillary to the summit of Mt Everest.

A South Korean climber has become the first woman to scale 14 of the world's highest mountains.

Seven locations have become the final group of landmarks in the running to bear the name of New Zealand's greatest mountaineer.

The widow of NZ climber Rob Hall says he would have wanted his body to remain on Mt Everest.