Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, the youngest member of the climbing team that first scaled Mount Everest, has died.

No roads, no phones, no power. But that doesn't get in the way of two Auckland ad men who are bringing schools to Southeast Asia's poorest kids - by motorbike. Kirsten Warner meets them.

Following in the steps of Sir Edmund Hillary on world's highest mountain will benefit charity for children

Art with a conscience is Tiffany Singh's passion. We find out what else the artist is into.

There are a few reinventions afoot this week in the world of information TV, with the Documentary Channel becoming BBC Knowledge and TVNZ's digital and freeview channel's 6 and 7 merging into one.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are an unlikely pairing of figureheads in the fight to save the tiger.

At least 28 rhinos, an endangered species, have died in the past year.

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

Climbing the world's tallest peak has gone from rugged challenge to booming tourist attraction. Sir Edmund Hillary would turn in his grave.

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

A leading British paper claims the UN has made a sizeable blunder over key evidence on global warming.

Three days' hard labour may not sound like much of a holiday. But for Jenifer Dagg it was the highlight of a trip to Nepal.