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.

More than 200 sheep died after they hurtled over a cliff in the Pyrenees mountains.

A missing woman has been found barefoot but uninjured after six days in the bush.

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.

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.

NZ Alpine Team name the pair who fell from Marian Peak in Fiordland.

Astronaut Thomas Pesquet wrote that he'd 'love to explore' New Zealand.

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.

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.

A weather balloon with cameras attached has captured a stunning view of Central Otago from the sky.

Teens unaware that Auckland's volcanic domes are protected heritage sites are carving ugly bike tracks into their sides.

New Base jumpers prone to leap dangerously beyond their experience

High school students among the 80 trapped for two days on Mt Ruapehu are having a great time playing in the snow, says Tukino Ski Field manager.

GeoNet reports rapid rise in temperature in the mountain's crater lake as well as more shakes than usual.

The Czech tourist who watched her partner fall to his death on the Routeburn Track has been touched by tragedy in the mountains before.