Some human beings simply can’t get enough adventure.
Barely three months after becoming the first double amputee to conquer Mt Everest, and less than two months after surgery to remove five fingertips and more of his legs, Mark Inglis went paragliding over Lake Wakatipu.
'No matter where I am in the world, the East Coast of Aotearoa will always be my home. It's like the magnetic lodestone that keeps pulling me back to our island fortress at the bottom of the South Pacific,' Witi Ihimaera says.
As unenticing as burnt toast may sound, it has certainly intrigued art buffs in galleries nationally and internationally, thanks to Maurice Bennett's pixilated 'toast portraits' and 'tapa cloth' toast designs.
An essential part of the New Zealand experience is hearing its beautiful and unique birdsong. But the source of this melodious sound must be protected, with 73 of New Zealand’s native bird species on the World Conservation Union’s 'red list' of species threatened with extinction.
Most people choose to visit Fiordland, New Zealand’s southern paradise in summer, but as Joe Russell discovers, spring and autumn is really the time to go.