The 18-year-old killed when he fell through an ice shelf loved the outdoors and planned to be an environmental engineer.

An Auckland student missing after falling through an ice shelf on a South Island mountain is named.

The search for teh missing 19-year-old skier in the Southern Alps has been called off.

When 5-year-old Max Christie slipped out of sight 90 metres down a rocky Whakapapa cliff his parents feared they wouldn't find him alive.

Just a day after a man's nasty 60m tumble, an Australian man is lucky to be alive after a big fall in the same area.

An Auckland climber fell "like a rag doll" after slipping while decending from Mt Ruapehu's Dome Summit.

Missing Victorian politician found alive after mountain rescue operation.

It's a story that reads like the plot of a movie thriller - lost in the Pacific.

A Canterbury man's holiday voyage turned into a trip from hell last week when the skipper fell overboard.

Former All Black Va'aiga Tuigamala says some of his wife's relatives were among those who perished in last week's tragedy.

Depth of the sunken ferry Princess Ashika means the recovery of the 93 bodies trapped inside would be a prohibitively costly, lengthy and dangerous process.

Police have today released dramatic tape of a mayday call from a missing boat off the Northland coast. But is it genuine?