New Zealand | Outside
9 February 2020
“New Zealand’s South Island is undoubtedly one of the world’s most beautiful places, where golden beaches and dense rainforests border the snow-capped Southern Alps and adventures are endless. But for those of us who…
New Zealand | New York Times (The)
26 December 2019
Though now only partially open to the public owing to a slip, the 55.7km Paparoa Track on the West Coast is the first addition to the Great Walks in 25 years. Sebastian Modak, The…
New Zealand | Economic Times (The)
2 February 2016
Aucklander Matt Jenke has helped put some of the country’s top tramping tracks on the Google map, completing seven of the nine Great Walks wearing a Google Street View Trekker, a wearable backpack outfitted…
New Zealand | Seattle Times (The)
26 January 2016
“New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park – bigger than Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks combined – offers a wealth of magical hikes,” Associated Press journalist Carey Williams writes.
“The Great Walks are routes featured by the…
New Zealand | Venture Beat
17 November 2015
“Google announced the addition of its new Street View imagery from New Zealand’s Great Walks on Thursday”, writes Michael De Waal-Montgomery in an article on VentureBeat.
The update includes six of the nine famous New…
New Zealand | Detroit Free Press
10 August 2015
New Zealand’s Great Walks are highly regulated by the Department of Conservation, which maintains the trails, checking for hiking passes and staffing the huts for nightly educational talks. Popular walks include the world-famous Milford…
New Zealand | Lonely Planet Traveller
9 August 2015
If New Zealand is famous for something, then it’s for nature, begins a German Lonely Planet Traveller magazine feature. The best way to experience the landscape, the publication recommends, is by hiking the Routeburn…
Travel
19 February 2015
The couple again took some time out to take on another New Zealand ‘great walk’ along the Whanganui River. Dubbed the Whanganui Journey this 3-5 day experience thrusts you into…
New Zealand | Wall Street Journal (The)
6 February 2015
For the ultimate adventure the Wall Street Journal recommends escaping into the “supersize spectacle” of one of New Zealand’s nine Great Walks for a tramp along the 32-km Routeburn Track.
Journal correspondent Robin Kawakami (pictured)…
Travel
27 October 2014
This time the couple journeyed into Mordor itself on New Zealand’s Tongariro Northern Circuit Great Walk! This track takes you up an active volcano and through the lava flows…
Travel & Tourism | New York Times (The)
29 April 2014
New Zealand’s Heaphy Track, the longest of the country’s nine famed Great Walks, is now permanently open to cyclists during winter.
In a decision almost 15 years in the making, New…
New Zealand | Gadling | Lonely Planet
19 January 2012
“Why if the is so fully-booked, expensive, and logistically unfriendly, would so many people choose to trek it?” asks Gadling blogger Kyle Ellison. “Because, to put it simply, it might actually be…