In the constellation of New Zealand’s most scenic places and star attractions, the Southern Lakes region burns so brightly that,...

The first time I laid eyes on Aoraki Mount Cook I cried like a baby.

No one really knows where the peculiar sport of curling originated, but there’s no doubt it was the Scots who...

The broad area around Tongariro National Park must have been a majestic place when Māori enjoyed undisturbed possession.

It is inevitable that as soon as a young child arrives on a ski field, zipped into multiple layers of...

I’m sliding into a blank white abyss and I can’t see a thing. Snowflakes stick to my face.

It was one of the tragedies of history that skiing was invented at a time when the technology of ski...