Travel

License to Thrill

Driven by an adventurous national spirit and blessed with an extraordinarily rugged landscape that calls to adrenaline addicts lthe way a jungle gym calls to children, New Zealanders and visiting foreigners have pioneered an impressive range of commercial adventure activities over the past few decades. Here, a bungee jumper flings herself off a bridge over the Kawarau River, near Queenstown, New Zealand.

Credit: Lisa Wiltse for The New York Times