Adventure

In another Mount Everest first, New Zealand skydiver Wendy Smith was one of three dare-devil skydivers to make the first ever solo parachute jump over the world’s highest peak.

A New Zealand / British team is to compete in the first race to the South Pole since pioneers Amundsen and Scott reached the geographic landmark almost 100 years ago.

Thirty-three years after his father became the first person to row across the Tasman, Shaun Quincey arrived on New Zealand’s 90 Mile beach - completing a 54-day row from Australia.

Kiwi adventurer Erik Bradshaw has made New Zealand alpine history as the first person to ski the length of the Southern Alps.

Two plucky young New Zealanders have driven their way into the record books after crossing Cook Strait – the passage between the North and South Islands – in a rather unlikely amphibian van.

The first New Zealand woman to ski to the South Pole is due to embark on her epic journey today (12.11.09) as part of an all-female expedition to mark a Commonwealth milestone.

New Zealand is taking a giant leap into the space race as the country’s first rocket launch counts-down, and the first-ever Kiwi female astronaut readies for take-off.

A New Zealand adventure company has overcome military interference to lead a team to conquer Mount Everest, the first New Zealanders to do so since the death of Sir Edmund Hillary in January.

He is probably the world's best-known cyclist, and now seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong is going to test his expertise on the landscapes of New Zealand.

Kiwi skateboarder Rob Thomson has completed an epic solo skateboard journey through three continents that began in Switzerland and finished in Shanghai.