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Geography

Dusk til dawn at Tekapo

In the rain shadow of the South Alps, and adjacent to a large body of water in Lake Tekapo, the...

Travel & Adventure

Climb Aoraki/Mt Cook

Mountain climbing legend Lydia Bradey picks her way up a couloir to reach the Summit Ridge of Aoraki/Mt Cook, the...

Society

Feed the fish

Cameron Gumbley and Henry Wilson feed meal into the pens at High Country Salmon on an arm of Lake Ruataniwha....

Geography

Gone fishing

Chinook (or king) salmon were introduced to New Zealand from the McLeod in California between 1901 and 1907 and established...

Society

Plan a route

Legendary Kiwi mountain climber Lydia Bradey swaps notes with fellow climber Ruari MacFarlane in the iconic Plateau Hut, something of...

Society

Star gaze with the Gilmours

Alan and Pam Gilmour have been researching near-Earth asteroids since 1973, monitoring 20 to 30 targets in any one night...

Geography

Fly over Aoraki/Mt Cook

At 3,724 metres above sea level, Aoraki is the highest point in New Zealand and the massif of the Southern...

Living World

Feed the kakī

Head Aviculturist Liz Brown has been working with kakī/black stilts for 12 years. It’s been a bumper season for eggs—almost...

Living World

Spot a stilt

A pair of kakī/black stilts—among the rarest birds on the planet—feed in a sheltered oxbow of the Tasman River under...

Travel & Adventure

Please mind the gap

Climbers return through thick snow from shoulder of Aoraki/Mt Cook. They’re roped together, so if one falls through into a...
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