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.

Inspired by the Lord of the Rings, a Dutch tourist attempted to climb Mt Ngauruhoe - but was ill-prepared for the task.

For more than a century, Negrohead Mountain has towered over the countryside north of Malibu, offering unrivalled views of the Pacific to generations of hikers.

The body of a veteran climber who fell 450 metres into the crater atop the Mount St Helens volcano was recovered today.