A French climber died after plummeting from the same peak in 2016. Climbing Mount Taranaki demands "special skill and preparation" due to the risk of avalanche and the chilling sub-zero ...

Also planning to go up Mt Taranaki today, weather permitting, is the Taranaki Alpine Club with its Open Climb 2012.

Callander said climbing Mt Taranaki takes “experience, knowledge, and properly fitted and correct equipment”. “Even the most experienced people can get caught up in situations where they ...

Police said the man fell from Mount Taranaki on the North ... A member of the Taranaki Alpine Rescue also happened to be climbing that day and helped locate the fallen man. The distance the ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...