Adventure

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 that will see this year’s Cavalcade journey end with a hoedown in Wanaka, Central Otago.

British Disabled Ski Team members, in Queenstown for the 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games, took time out from their racing schedule to play with gravity at the Shotover Canyon Swing.

Some of the world's best young surfers will be riding the waves at Piha - on Auckland's wild west coast - when New Zealand plays host next January to the World Junior Surfing Champs.

Work on New Zealand’s national cycleway network is to get a ‘quick start’ this summer at several locations throughout the country.

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.

Freefall fanatics from around the world are preparing to descend on Motueka – in the northern South Island – for New Zealand’s largest skydiving event.

Queen's Birthday weekend could see New Zealand’s first major skifield open for the 2009 ski season – Mt Hutt in the South Island is gearing up to launch two weeks ahead of schedule, for the first time in 10 years.

Visitors keen to experience New Zealand’s great outdoors are being given an added incentive to book early and enjoy a price freeze introduced by the Department of Conservation.

Rare Sir Edmund Hillary memorabilia unwittingly destined for the trash has instead been recognised as a priceless national treasure, and is now safely in the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre at Aoraki Mount Cook.

Lonely Planet will release its first dedicated guidebook to New Zealand’s adventure-packed South Island in April 2009.