Fears that spontaneous mountainside collapse would kill hut occupants

Ruapehu eruption survivor William Pike returns to Dome Shelter & reflects on past decade.

COMMENT: Climber's story shows how misfortune an enrich life.

National treasure: Tongariro celebrates 130 years as a national park

Rare Sir Edmund Hillary climbing expedition bag surfaces at auction.

Widespread snowfalls have raised avalanche warnings to the highest level in seven areas.

Champion skier Tom Garatadour did not return as scheduled from backcountry ski trip.

Avalanche risk now life-threatening in some of the country's popular trekking areas.

Anxious moment as Parore drops and loses abseiling device and must improvise.

Alpine plants are at risk as climate change and tourism spread weeds to higher altitudes.

Former cricketing star Adam Parore is taking on K2 in the Himalayas.

One dragged two trapped pilots from the wreckage while surrounded by flammable jet fuel.

This is not a joke - Kiwi air is being sold overseas for $35 a pop.

A 23-year-old New Zealander has died after visiting a Polish mountain range.

Review to look at the cause of the accident that killed two climbers last month.

NZ's safety and natural beauty mean overseas tourists are flocking to our parks.

A Swiss climber has been killed in a mountaineering accident near Mount Everest in Nepal.

The climbing community is devastated by the death of two friends who fell from mountain.

Rescuer killed by avalanche, John Harrison, was one of New Zealand's top climbers.

Two trampers have been airlifted out of a remote hut southeast of Taihape after a suspected case of food poisoning. The two women

An exhausted tramper has been rescued from remote South Island wilderness.

There's no slumming it in the McCaw household, as the newlyweds continue to celebrate married life in beautiful Central Otago locations.

The death of a young Czech man who fell several hundred metres on Mt Aspiring is "tragic", the Mountain Safety Council says.

Two climbers were rescued from Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park last night, in what was described as a "marvellous" piece of flying in poor conditions.

An emergency beacon has mysteriously gone off a year after search teams recovered the bodies of its owners from Aoraki/Mt Cook.

Drops of the controversial pest-control poison 1080 have killed at least two dozen endangered kea in recent years.

Preliminary modelling suggests that the earthquake was caused by a rupture of a northeast-striking fault t, but this may be a more complex event.

A helicopter pilot says he could smell the fresh earth uncovered by the Kaikoura earthquake hundreds of metres in the air as he flew above the scene.

Mickey Ross is a photographer from Wanaka, New Zealand, who is taking wedding photos to a new level.

Seismic activity has increased at Mt Ruapehu after the lake in the volcano's crater peaked in temperature.