New Zealand has much at stake. Tourism is the country's biggest export,representing nearly 6 per cent of its economic output
The plan:leave the kids with the grandparents while wife and husband reconnect in the NT wilderness. The reality:flies,more flies,and water running dangerously low.
Whakaari/White Island is right up there for an exhilarating travel experience - the kind we commonly take risks for.
Geoff Wilson has reached his first major milestone in his expedition to Dome Argus,the coldest place on earth.
New Zealand police have named two Australians as the men who died after falling hundreds of metres in a horror climbing accident on Wednesday.
"I did everything I could to survive":Adrift for days off the coast of Crete,a Kiwi woman survived by wrapping herself in bags and rationing a handful of boiled lollies.
Nirmal Purja completed his ascent of the world's 14 tallest mountains in only 189 days,knocking nearly seven-and-a-half years off the previous record.
Polar explorer Geoff Wilson hates the cold and heights,but next month he will attempt to scale the highest spot in Antarctica and reach the coldest place on earth.
The grieving husband of mountaineer Ruth McCance,who perished in an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas,has returned to the church where the couple wed for her packed memorial service.
Indian soldiers have reached the bodies of seven members of a team of international climbers believed killed on a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain.
The inspiring story of strength and determination came after the engineer was rushed to hospital with a broken neck in 2014.