Adventure

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

New Zealand’s latest tourist attraction – a mix of adrenalin buzz and a dose of environmental awareness – is about to launch in the country’s adventure capital, Queenstown.

After completing a mammoth 50-day expedition, the first New Zealand woman to ski to the South Pole is due home on 15 January and looking forward to sunshine and a belated Christmas dinner.

Re-tracing the footsteps of New Zealand’s early settlers across some of the country’s most remote and dramatic landscape has become an annual pilgrimage in Central Otago, New Zealand.

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.

The discovery of a new and very deep cave near Nelson in New Zealand's South Island is being hailed as the biggest news in the history of New Zealand caving.

Kiwi teenagers Paige Hareb and Sarah Mason have created New Zealand surfing history at the Dream Tour women’s surfing event underway in Taranaki, in the North Island.

Tween idol Justin Bieber’s whirlwind New Zealand visit got off to a flying leap when he bungy jumped off the Auckland Harbour Bridge this morning.

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.