Two alums are putting lessons learned at Tech to use in life and business, crafting high-quality, lightweight gear for their fellow long-distance backpackers. Like most successful small businesses, ...

With darkness falling and hypothermia setting in, a tramper high in an isolated and icy mountain range was lucky to stumble on a pocket of cellphone coverage. Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter ...

A tramper has been airlifted to hospital after they were found injured on the Whakanui Track in Lower Hutt on Sunday evening. Westpac Rescue Helicopter said the tramper was found moderately injured on ...

Each season, with the same regularity as the swallows returning to Capistrano, the trampers arrive back in Western Alaska to haul away the sea's mother lode. Kind of a sea gypsy, a tramper is a ship ...

A tramper lost in dense Northland bush was able to make it home safely thanks to highly skilled and dedicated Search and Rescue teams. Northland Police Search and Rescue lead, Detective Sergeant Paul ...

On 27 August 2017, deep-sea researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recovered the underwater robot Tramper, which had been taking ...

A tramper died after carrying on his journey without his wife in Tararua Range, mountains that trampers have in the past warned about underestimating. Police deployed LandSAR after the man set off his ...

A tramper in Wanaka was left with cold feet after a curious kea stole one of his shoes whilst he was camping. Dr Hannah Morey, 29, came to the rescue - tracing the thieves, recovering the shoe from ...