Adventure

Skiers and snowboarders are clapping their gloved hands and kicking up their snow boots – kei te heke te hukapapa (it is snowing) and the New Zealand ski season is underway.

While financial swings have prompted caution and reserve in some industries, it seems New Zealand adventure-seekers are keener than ever to take the plunge and enjoy an adrenalin high.

International yachting teams have raced to submit entries for the new Louis Vuitton Pacific Series to be sailed in Auckland – New Zealand’s ‘city of sails’ – in February 2009.

A 35-year dream comes to life with the opening of the completed Te Araroa Trail – a new 3000km hiking adventure that travels the length of New Zealand.

Tourists at the Tasman Glacier terminal face, in Aoraki Mount Cook national park, witnessed a three-metre high wave as a giant iceberg plunged from the glacier into the terminal lake on Tuesday (10.02.09).

A pair of rugby-loving Brits will set off from London this weekend on an intrepid 18-month, 18-country journey to the New Zealand 2011 Rugby World Cup – on bicycles.

Motueka’s skies will swarm with some of the most amazing skydiving spectacles seen in New Zealand when the 2010 Good Vibes event is held from 18 - 22 August.

New Zealand will farewell one of its greatest sons, Sir Edmund Hillary, in a state funeral on January 22nd.

Legendary former Springbok rugby player Percy Montgomery has taken a huge leap of faith in New Zealand where yesterday (6.07.2010) he jumped off Auckland’s iconic Sky Tower.

Snow sport enthusiasts are taking to the Canterbury hills to make the most of spring snows and escape the rumblings following the recent earthquake.