Broadcaster Matty McLean can't quite believe a high school is holding its own Pride Week... and the fact it's his old high school has the openly-gay TV personality beaming from ear to ear.

It's gold this time around for Wanaka freeskier Nico Porteous.

Just over six months since claiming an Olympic bronze medal in halfpipe, the teenager has stamped his mark on the junior world championship halfpipe competition, held on his home mountain of Cardrona.

Snowsports lovers donned an array of weird and wonderful costumes over the weekend, as they attempted to pull off their best tricks into an ice-cold pool at The Remarkables.

It was all part of Queenstown's annual Jump and Freeze competition, with competitors vying to out-jump and out-dress each other for the thousand dollar prize money.

Queenstown's latest adrenalin experience is giving people the opportunity to feel what it's like to skydive - without having to leap from a plane.

iFly has opened for business in the resort town, and while the activity itself only simulates the feeling of being sky-high, the same can't be said of the price...