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Recently couch-bound, and trawling Netflix, I started watching ‘Dark Tourist’ – a travel documentary series fronted by NZ journalist David Farrier. This investigatory travel series explores the concept of ‘dark’ tourism, revealing a subculture of tra

Delivering to Australia and New Zealand for the first time, UK-based outdoor apparel brand Jöttnar continues its lightning-fast expansion. Founded in 2013 by two ex-marine commandos who also happen to be keen climbing and skiing enthusiasts, the comp

Exhausted, dining on sticks of butter and dragging up to 150 kilograms each across ice and snow for 18 days, it’s fair to say that kiteboarding across Greenland isn’t everyone’s idea of a family holiday. But Queensland adventurers Geoff Wilson and so

As the temperature continued to hover around 27 degrees, we sweated our way towards Brinkley Bluff. Covered in sunscreen and sporting ever-so-fashionable, broad-brimmed cricket hats, nevertheless the unseasonable weather took its toll. The dry air an

The hallways of exploration are decorated with the conquests of our forebears, each of whom challenged the limits of possibility, rolled the dice and ventured off into the unknown. Success was most often measured by a triumphant return, with a flag f

When the heavens opened in Wangaratta, I began to fear for the snow we were chasing. If it was raining up in the mountains, would all our snow have been washed away? Perhaps at that altitude, droplets of rain would morph into their crystalline cousin

Their heads sweep from side to side. Eyes flick in different directions. Rangers Mosa and Mario are always scanning the breadth of the Botswana bush, ready to react at a moment’s notice. Leaning on their bikes, they ooze a kind of casual cool. But ev

Some parts of this glorious world are so strikingly different and exotic that you just have to see them for yourself, to behold vistas and feel sensations so foreign to your past experience that it feels like you’re on another planet. For an ordinary

Indonesia and Sumatra have clearly staked their place on the international hit list for surfers, but who thinks of world-class whitewater? With the greater watershed and catchment formed by the last super volcano to erupt, the warm turbid waters of t

Deep within a burrow atop Australia’s highest mountains, under a blanket of snow, lies someone very unexpected – the Guthega skink. As Australia’s highest elevation reptile, this lizard spends almost half of its life hibernating underground to avoid

SHINING A LIGHT ON A FEW HEROES OF THE SOUTH Bob Brown I don’t do endorsements. However, if you are ever stumped for something to do out of Hobart, consider a boat ride beneath the highest sea cliffs in the Southern Hemisphere with Damo (Damien)and S

The Castle is one of the most spectacular, challenging and rewarding day walks in Australia. It is one of the singular features of the Budawangs wilderness, where the cliff-lined plateaus and valleys that extend south from the Blue Mountains end in c

The concept for creating a large national park northeast of Melbourne has persisted, according to some, for three decades or more. In recent years, the discussion has been brought to the fore by an organisation called – and proposing to create – Grea

Yeah dude, you’ve got this!” Above, a headlight glowed, behind it was the bouncing shape of a very excited Alex, providing a solid belay and some welcome words of encouragement. My hands were jammed into overhanging cracks, from which shiny trad gear

In the last issue of Wild (166), we announced the range of coolers Otterbox are launching into the Australian market. Now that the first shipment of coolers have arrived on our shores, I’ve had the chance to test the two smaller soft coolers availabl

Although the Akasha from La Sportiva is designed as a trail running shoe, I decided to give them a go in order to see how well they would translate to more general bushwalking or hiking. Over the past nine months, my pair of Akasha’s have been worn o

For just over forty years, Osprey Packs have been doing nothing other than designing and manufacturing packs. While this may not seem so unusual, today most of the large multinational outdoor brands produce a whole range of products. This generally m