Adventure

An aged Land Rover lumbering over a rugged farm track with a yapping sheepdog on the back is a familiar sight in New Zealand but the image is getting a new twist from a couple of intrepid ex-pats.

Passengers might be checking in single file on Air New Zealand’s Los Angeles to Auckland flight on October 13 but the return journey could be a different matter if the world’s first Matchmaking Flight works its magic.

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.

One of the world’s greatest migrations across the Pacific Ocean is to be re-enacted using ancient seafaring skills and a fleet of traditional canoes, currently being built in New Zealand.

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.

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.