Mt Aspiring

Intense rain predictions for today and tomorrow have caused the Department of Conservation to issue a "high alert" warning for the Young Valley landslip dam in the Mt Aspiring National Park.

The new 20-bed Siberia hut in the Mt Aspiring National Park has opened for trampers in time for Christmas.

Siberia Hut in Mt Aspiring National Park is to be rebuilt after being destroyed by fire in March.

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) has launched an inquiry into the helicopter crash in Mount Aspiring National Park that killed two talented pilots.

Police have named two men killed after their helicopter crashed in mountainous terrain in Mount Aspiring National Park yesterday after their bodies were recovered this afternoon.

A helicopter searching for two people missing in mountainous terrain near Mt Aspiring after their chopper failed to return to Wanaka yesterday has picked up an emergency beacon signal.

A 21-year-old Singaporean climber died on Mt Aspiring yesterday morning, after a fall of about 800m from the southwest ridge route.

No-one was to blame for the death of a Dunedin resident during a tramping trip in Mount Aspiring National Park on December 5, 2009, Coroner David Crerar concluded at an inquest in Queenstown yesterday.

A finalised management plan for New Zealand's third largest national park is one step closer to completion.

The fourth generation of Aspinalls has taken possession of Mt Aspiring Station homestead in a move the family says is "huge" but satisfying.