Stories - Patagonia New Zealand

The Relentless Push and Pull of a Mountain Guide

How Zahan Billimoria recalibrated after unthinkable tragedy.

The Relentless Push and Pull of a Mountain Guide

10 Min Read

Hair of the Dog

A skiing family’s shear joy.

Hair of the Dog

6 Min Read

Mountain of Storms

The mythological origin story behind the Patagonia name and philosophy, and proving what’s important isn’t what you accomplished, it’s how you got there.

Mountain of Storms

52:26:00

What Do the Winds Bring?

After surviving calamity in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, a few skiers return to COVID-19.

What Do the Winds Bring?

10 Min Read

Foothills: the Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding

The people of Petran, Turkey, have been snowboarding for roughly 300 years. It’s not snowboarding as we know it, but you’ll recognise it.

Foothills: the Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding

10 Min Read

Crash-Test Dummy

Kelly Cordes

Best job in the world? Field testing guru Kelly Cordes takes us on a journey through the extremes of Patagonia's field testing program and possibly to the brink of hypothermia. We promise, we take this work – if not always ourselves - seriously.

Crash-Test Dummy

Kelly Cordes

4 Min Read

Adventures in Motherhood

Jasmin Caton worried having twins might slow down her life in the mountains. Then she remembered what her parents did with her.

Adventures in Motherhood

5 Min Read

Black Summer, White Winter

From the bushfires of Ulladulla to the snows of Kashmir, it’s been a wild year for Bill Barker.

Black Summer, White Winter

6 Min Read

Running Led Me Home

Vanessa Chavarriaga Posada

After years of trying to fit in with Western trail culture, one runner realises that what she’s been missing lies in the Colombian mountains of her youth.

Running Led Me Home

Vanessa Chavarriaga Posada

8 Min Read

How Yvon Chouinard Taught My Kids About Trout Fishing

As the kids grow older, it becomes clearer and clearer to me how precious, and short, our time is together. It’s also become more important than ever to me that they spend time with key people in my life – friends and mentors who’ve inspired me and helped along the way – in the hopes that a little wisdom and generous spirit will rub off on the kids.

How Yvon Chouinard Taught My Kids About Trout Fishing

11 Min Read

Located in downtown Lismore, the offices of the Koori Mail newspaper became a focal point for community-led flood relief during the catastrophic Northern River floods of early 2022.

The Story of The Koori Mail Flood Hub

Ella Noah Bancroft

"This right here, this is how we reconcile in this country."

The Story of The Koori Mail Flood Hub

Ella Noah Bancroft

9 Min Read

Life Lived Wild

Rick Ridgeway

Rolling Stone called him “the real Indiana Jones.” His new memoir reveals why our friend Rick was always a great deal more.

Life Lived Wild

Rick Ridgeway

6 Min Read

Tara Kerzhner climbs The Backbone (5.13a) of The Monkey at Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park, also known as Animal Village. Photo: Jules Jimreivat

Smith Rock Is Animal Village

Len Necefer & Tara Kerzhner

Elder Wilson Wewa tells the creation story of Animal Village. Tara Kerzhner and Len Necefer consider how these stories can reshape stewardship.

Smith Rock Is Animal Village

Len Necefer & Tara Kerzhner

15 Min Read

What Can Rich Sensory Experiences Teach Children?

Patagonia

What Can Rich Sensory Experiences Teach Children?

Patagonia

7 Min Read

Jake Patryn harvests the final string of sugar kelp off the Nautical Farms sea farm as the sun rises over the Western Hemisphere.

The Nautical Farmers

Erin Grace Scottberg

One young couple’s unexpected career path of farming sea vegetables drew them back to their roots and brought a promising climate-change solution to their coastal hometown.

The Nautical Farmers

Erin Grace Scottberg

7 Min Read

Dave and Uncle Buddha

How a chance meeting twenty-five years ago brought together two of surfing’s most influential figures.

Dave and Uncle Buddha

10 min Read

The Migration of Songs: Thoughts from a Birder

Welcoming back the ‘welcoming noise’ near the Arctic Circle.

The Migration of Songs: Thoughts from a Birder

10 min Read

Taking the Kids to Point Nemo

When your goal is to raise children in wild places, it helps if you’re flexible.

Taking the Kids to Point Nemo

10 min Read

Jacqueline inspects nylon nets with a smile during the drying process at Bureo's warehouse in Talcahuano, Chile.

Falling for Fishing Nets

Andrew O’Reilly

Out of necessity, Jacqueline Sangueza loved fishing nets before she loved the ocean.

Falling for Fishing Nets

Andrew O’Reilly

6 Min Read

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

6 Min Read

Higher Ground

Discovering that climbing is for them.

Higher Ground

6 Min Read

Lessons from Uncle Addy

The Bight-based farmer calls upon a wizard of the earthly realm.

Lessons from Uncle Addy

10 Min Read

At the River’s Edge

How one suburban mountain biker’s vision for a trail system reshaped a former industrial town – and turned trail building into a family tradition.

At the River’s Edge

6 Min Read

Blood Memory

What if we could pass our love of a certain place through generations?

Blood Memory

6 Min Read

The Lost Dory

Joe Curren shares childhood memories of his dad, legendary waterman Pat Curren, and the unique boat that traveled with them to Baja.

The Lost Dory

10 Min Read

The Ancient Tree Hunter

As the old-growth logging crisis heats up in Canada, a photographer goes searching for trees to save them.

The Ancient Tree Hunter

10 Min Read

Sew-cial Distancing

Making face masks in the time of COVID-19: when “breathable face fabric” takes on a whole new meaning.

Sew-cial Distancing

10 Min Read

The Slab Hunter: Ben Wilkinson Woodwork

It didn’t take long for Ben Wilkinson to figure out that there was freedom to be had in working for himself—and that freedom was the first requirement if he wanted to go surfing whenever the waves got huge. “I left home when I was 16,” he remembers,…

The Slab Hunter: Ben Wilkinson Woodwork

10 Min Read

Wear and Tear

From shelf to soil and everything in-between – the unexpected lifecycle of Paul West’s tees.

Wear and Tear

10 Min Read

Jerry’s Wisdom

Caroline Gleich grapples with the fears that come with an aging parent and the pressure she feels to have a child before her dad is gone.

Jerry’s Wisdom

11 Min Read

Four Fifths a Grizzly

A book excerpt about how the microbes within us and the genes we share with other wild creatures are key dimensions of being human.

Four Fifths a Grizzly

6 Min Read

This family’s thread runs deep. Courtney Reynolds sews a quilt sourced from a local swap meet into a jacket for her twin girls while her son, Sammy, starts a project of his own on his kid-sized sewing machine. Photo: Tim Davis

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

Allison Gibson

Nearly every Wednesday, Courtney Reynolds can be found elbow-deep in a bin of someone else’s castoffs, searching for scraps of fabric and colourful quilts to

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

Allison Gibson

9 Min Read

Bright Sparks of Yackandandah

The Victorian country town that set up its own solar energy grid.

Bright Sparks of Yackandandah

6 Min Read

Transplanting Traditions

A small-scale farmer takes a regenerative approach to keeping his community fed.

Transplanting Traditions

10 Min Read

Farming for our Future

Black Duck Foods is sowing seeds for First Nations food sovereignty.

Farming for our Future

6 minute read

2021 takayna Trail. Photo: Kelly Slater.

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

Beau Miles isn’t really one for running with others, activism, or taking more than two showers a week

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

10 Min Read

The Story of Fleece

A tale of tinkering.

The Story of Fleece

10 Min Read

Why Should the Public Care About Public Lands?

Debates over how America’s public lands should be managed are as old as the system itself...

Why Should the Public Care About Public Lands?

10 Min Read

Kimi Werner, Léa Brassy and Liz Clark: Sea Sisters

11 Min Read

We the Power

The future of energy is community-owned.

We the Power

39:00:00

Stitch in Time

As a repaired shirt becomes more of an original, it still takes the author back.

Stitch in Time

10 Min Read

Bodies of Water

When a swimmer first knew she belonged.

Bodies of Water

6 Min Read

Where Is She Now? The Famous Flying Patagonia Baby

Jordan Leads wants everybody to know she is alive and well.

Where Is She Now? The Famous Flying Patagonia Baby

10 Min Read

Unconscious and Offshore

Surfers Jay ‘Bottle’ Thompson and Dan Ross look back on a heavy day off the Australia's east coast, where quick-thinking and ocean skills made the difference.

Unconscious and Offshore

10 Min Read

Whitmore’s Legacy

Remembering the climber and conservationist.

Whitmore’s Legacy

10 Min Read

Everyone’s Wildness

A wildlife ecologist reflects on the wild places that are his escape hatch and life’s work.

Everyone’s Wildness

6 Min Read

The Gift of Stories

Why well-loved gear is the best gift of all.

The Gift of Stories

10 Min Read

Death to the Zipper!

The zipper is one of the most elegantly functional features in design. It’s also one of the most frustrating barriers to fully recycled, easily repairable gear.

Death to the Zipper!

6 Min Read

Can We Stop Greenwashing?

What was once a nuisance – overselling environmental gains – now conceals the apparel industry’s role in the climate crisis.

Can We Stop Greenwashing?

6 Min Read

Dead Friends and Ocean Risk Management

Kohl Christensen discusses how BWRAG came to be and his recent near-death experience courtesy of Pipeline's reef.

Dead Friends and Ocean Risk Management

6 Min Read

Patagonia NZ

The Relentless Push and Pull of a Mountain Guide

The Relentless Push and Pull of a Mountain Guide

Hair of the Dog

Hair of the Dog

Mountain of Storms

Mountain of Storms

What Do the Winds Bring?

After surviving calamity in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, a few skiers return to COVID-19.

What Do the Winds Bring?

Foothills: the Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding

Foothills: the Unlinked Heritage of Snowboarding

Crash-Test Dummy

Crash-Test Dummy

Adventures in Motherhood

Adventures in Motherhood

Black Summer, White Winter

Black Summer, White Winter

Running Led Me Home

Running Led Me Home

How Yvon Chouinard Taught My Kids About Trout Fishing

How Yvon Chouinard Taught My Kids About Trout Fishing

The Story of The Koori Mail Flood Hub

The Story of The Koori Mail Flood Hub

Life Lived Wild

Life Lived Wild

Smith Rock Is Animal Village

Smith Rock Is Animal Village

What Can Rich Sensory Experiences Teach Children?

What Can Rich Sensory Experiences Teach Children?

The Nautical Farmers

The Nautical Farmers

Dave and Uncle Buddha

Dave and Uncle Buddha

The Migration of Songs: Thoughts from a Birder

The Migration of Songs: Thoughts from a Birder

Taking the Kids to Point Nemo

Taking the Kids to Point Nemo

Falling for Fishing Nets

Falling for Fishing Nets

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

Dispatch from Fairy Creek

Higher Ground

Higher Ground

Lessons from Uncle Addy

Lessons from Uncle Addy

At the River’s Edge

At the River’s Edge

Blood Memory

Blood Memory

The Lost Dory

The Lost Dory

The Ancient Tree Hunter

The Ancient Tree Hunter

Sew-cial Distancing

Sew-cial Distancing

The Slab Hunter: Ben Wilkinson Woodwork

The Slab Hunter: Ben Wilkinson Woodwork

Wear and Tear

Wear and Tear

Jerry’s Wisdom

Jerry’s Wisdom

Four Fifths a Grizzly

Four Fifths a Grizzly

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

Mummy, Where Do Clothes Come From?

Bright Sparks of Yackandandah

Bright Sparks of Yackandandah

Transplanting Traditions

Transplanting Traditions

Farming for our Future

Farming for our Future

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

The Story of Fleece

The Story of Fleece

Why Should the Public Care About Public Lands?

Why Should the Public Care About Public Lands?

Kimi Werner, Léa Brassy and Liz Clark: Sea Sisters

Kimi Werner, Léa Brassy and Liz Clark: Sea Sisters