Here are some links to the South Island's premier alpine resort, Queenstown. This is an area famous for its great variety of adventure activities as well as ski areas, wineries, spectacular alpine scenery.

Official site of Queenstown Tourism

http://www.queenstown.com/

Queenstown Travel and Visitor centre

Experience Queenstown

 

The local free papers called Mountain Scene  and  Lake Weekly Bulletin has a lot of information and worth a look.