Adventure

They’re the most widely read travel guides in the world and now 'Lonely Planet' is upping the focus on New Zealand as a destination with four new books.

The Martin Jetpack, a New Zealand invention that is close to realising man’s dream of conquering personal flight, has made 'Time' magazine’s Top 50 Best Inventions List.

New Zealand’s oldest immigrant, who’s just turned 103, says he’s still happy with life in New Zealand and uses the internet to keep in touch with his homeland, Britain.

Kiwi marathon adventurer Malcolm Law – who last year became the first person in the world to run the equivalent of seven marathons in seven consecutive days – is mounting an even grittier challenge for 2010.

Canada’s snowboarding elite took some time out from the 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games to relax Queenstown-style – jumping off bridges and careering through canyons.

A world-first attempt to run New Zealand’s seven internationally renowned ‘Great Walks’ in seven consecutive days will provide an epic fundraising mission.

The largest aviation sports event ever held in the Southern Hemisphere will take place in the skies over Wanaka in December.

Travel between New Zealand and China is now easier with the launch of Air New Zealand’s non-stop service from Auckland to Beijing.

An Air New Zealand pilot has taken the kiwi ‘can-do’ reputation to extremes by spending four hours dangling 20 metres above a busy London street.

With selection of a New Zealand woman to ski to the South Pole in next year’s Commonwealth Women’s Antarctic expedition in the final stages, two Kiwi hopefuls are enduring arduous training in sweltering heat to prepare for life on the ice.