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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

An 85-year-old tramper was airlifted out of Bay of Plenty bush yesterday afternoon. The woman suffered severe cramp and was unable to walk from the Kaimai Ranges police said. Her tramping group walked ...

A cold, wet tramper who spent a night stuck on steep terrain in the Kahurangi National Park was lucky the rescue helicopter was able to drop a paramedic to him before nightfall. The man activated his ...