Awe-inspiring climbs on sheer Yosemite rock faces, the art of riding in all snow styles, a boy confronting his fears and new perspectives on mountain biking are the themes of the first four award-winning short films confirmed for the Queenstown Adventure Film Festival, which opens next week.
A final report from the government review of safety in the adventure tourism industry is being completed for Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson.
Totally Tourism lodged an application to appeal its own resource consent to increase the number of flights at a helicopter landing pad at Arthurs Point at an Environment Court hearing held in Queenstown on Friday last week.
Queenstown has once again won a top ranking in a tourism award - this time from the travel website Trip Advisor.
The road to paradise can be less than perfect but once you are there, it's a dream come true, says Aitutaki kiteboarding instructor Jimmy Rimmer, of Hawea Flat.
A Wanaka-based skydiving business is expanding and bringing in a new purpose-built aircraft for its thrillseeking customers.
A request to remove restrictions on the number of flights from an airstrip near Jacks Point will be considered at a hearing in Queenstown next week.
The pounding power of the Iguazu Falls dampens clothes while firing the imagination.
Wanaka adventure tourism providers Paul and Anne Cooper return to the Environment Court on Monday for another bout in a six-year stoush over the right to operate a second commercial jet-boating operation on the Wilkin River at Makarora.
One hundred and nine metres.
In this week's Reader Postcard Gary Marks masters the uncomfortable art of camel-riding on a incredible desert safari in northwest India: "The beasts were particularly unfazed to see us on arrival....
Adventure tourism operators are defending their safety practices after a Department of Labour report said some operators were under-reporting accidents.
