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The Marlborough Flyer steam train. Photo: RNZ / Tracy Neal Pounamu Tourism Group owner Paul Jackson said they were preparing for about 60 cruise ship to arrive in Picton in 2020. His company would take 300 passengers on the Marlborough Flyer steam train, delivering them to Blenhiem. But when Covid-19 struck and he, like many others, was left with the vast majority of his usual market cut off by border closures. "We were scratching our heads over lockdown and, obviously, the business was lookin...

South of Kaikōura, the rail journey will continue with two heritage DA locomotives built in the early 1950s, which will travel in double-header formation all the way to Invercargill. Upon reaching Invercargill, the tour will travel inland via luxury coach, taking in Te Anau, Milford Sound, Queenstown and Franz Josef. Supplied The tour will take passengers down the length of the South Island in heritage trains. The inland section of the tour will also feature a return journey on the iconic K...

Watch: Samantha Hayes full report Credits: Video - Newshub ; Image - Getty Newshub can reveal COVID-19 is tearing through one of the most remote places on the planet: Everest Base Camp.  The Nepalese government denies its happening, but a Nepalese Sherpa who has recently come off the worlds highest mountain has called the outbreak scary. Nepal shares a border with India which has remained open through the pandemic, and the new Delta variant is now widespread throughout Nepal and the Everest ar...

Nepal has officially recorded nearly 600,000 cases of COVID-19.

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Scott Simper knew he was sick when he reached the summit of Mt Everest. He didn't know it was Covid-19.

Covid 19 coronavirus: Northlands Nepalese community racked with worry for home country 14 May, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read Whangārei resident Padam Acharya has lost two friends to Covid in Nepal. Photo / Michael Cunningham Nepalese living in Northland are racked with worry as the Covid-19 crisis ravages their home country. Many of their family members have fled to remote villages to escape the turmoil in Kathmandu, which is in lockdown, and New Zealand charities in Nepal are urging Kiwis t...

Vaccinations are a key part of delivering health care and no one should miss out on life-saving vaccines regardless of where they live in the world, or how remote, says Kiwi mountaineer Peter Hillary.

Mountain Scene By MARK PRICE Two Himalayan high-flyers will be guest speakers at tomorrow night’s Rotary Club of Queenstown fundraising dinner and auction. One is mountaineer Peter Hillary, the well-known son of the late Sir Edmund Hillary who  was first to climb Mt Everest. The other’s local chopper pilot Jason Laing who flew rescue helicopters on Mt Everest — considered to be one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Hillary participated in many of his father’s exped...