Adam Hall

Snow powder hounds yesterday took full advantage of Cardrona Alpine Resort's new four-seater Valley View chairlift, which fired up for the first time since it was installed in 2010.

Gold medal-winning skier Adam Hall became the inaugural Wanaka Hall of Fame inductee in a surprise announcement at the end of a homecoming parade to welcome back the town's Winter Olympians on Saturday.

Gold medal-winning Paralympian Adam Hall will head a street parade in Wanaka this weekend welcoming back the resort's Winter Olympic representatives.

A man who "trained like nobody else", with a pig-headed disregard for his body received recognition for his world-beating achievements last night.

A civic reception for paralympic gold medallist Adam Hall will go ahead next Friday, despite the death of his mother, Gayle.

The family of Taieri woman Gayle Hall, who died in a car crash 400m from her home on Wednesday, is coping with her death "one hour at a time", a family friend says.

Supreme joy turned to overwhelming sorrow for the Hall family of Taieri yesterday, when Gayle Hall, the mother of paralympic gold medallist Adam Hall, was killed in a car crash just 400m from the family's home.

Gayle Hall, the mother of paralympic gold medallist Adam Hall, has died in a car crash south of Dunedin.

It is not every day the mayor gives you a hug.

He's coming home.

Paralympic gold medallist Adam Hall returns to Otago today on a flight scheduled to reach Dunedin Airport at 4.25pm.

Hall will be greeted by family, friends, supporters and at least one person puffing on a certain musical instrument that always greets returning Otago sports heroes.