In an empty carpark behind a hockey centre next to the Hamilton lake, the Madison Blues masters are warming up. Twelve women, aged between 32 and 67, get in the zone. They throw shoulders back, chests ...

The 49-kilometre Motatapu Track between Macetown and Wānaka sends walkers up four mountains; while Arnold slogged through the mud she dreamed of reaching these open tops. In the campground kitchen at ...

Karioi maunga towers above the Raglan coastline, shaping both the weather and the region’s famous surf. Those arriving in Aotearoa on the Tainui waka saw Karioi on the horizon, and some later settled ...

The photograph of patternmaker Tara Viggo on page 29 was taken by her late friend, UK photographer Caylee Hankins, in 2019. The pair had bonded over their love of surfing and obscure gigs, and spent a ...

“Epic” is an overused word. I’m in the heart of Mount Aspiring National Park. We’re surrounded on three sides by 400-metre cliffs, over which tumble curtains of water. Boulders the size of townhouses ...

Colour photography hit its stride in New Zealand just as debutante balls were fading from the scene, so almost all of the images in official archives, like this group of young ladies pictured in their ...

Imagine if a snail had feet popping out the end of its shell, two soft little lobes. Now, imagine that it could flap those feet and fly away. That’s pretty much what a sea butterfly is, except that it ...

At night, the only light in the warehouse comes from row upon row of truck-sized tanks, each lit from within like a gigantic lava lamp. The contents roil, the colours shifting with the movement from ...

Mark Adams was always, in his words, “the white boy in the room”. And he always knew it. Now in his mid 70s, the photographer is best known for the decades he spent documenting the practice of ...

One day, drawing patterns for huge clothing brands in the UK, Tara Viggo made a mistake. On a blouse with a keyhole opening at the front, she omitted an important X. “The keyhole was the wrong length, ...

Whales sing more when there’s oodles of food around, researchers have discovered. A team based at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute analysed whalesong picked up on hydrophones in the ...

In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape Reinga over about nine months. Here, 100 kilometres into her odyssey and deeply unsure about her capacity to finish it, ...