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With our editor, Campbell, currently trekking somewhere over in northern India, I have the pleasure of writing the Editor’s Note for this issue of Wild. For those many new (and existing) Wild readers out there who don’t know the recent history of Wil

I’d recently relocated from Melbourne to Launceston for a short three-week job. Having finished work on Friday I decided to drive down to Cradle Mountain. Spending the night at Cradle Mountain, I woke early to climb to the summit. After a tough climb

Let me start at the end. In fact, not even the end, but weeks later. When I was back in Sydney, in my inner city suburb of Kings Cross with its high rises and construction, its cement and tar, its clubs and hostels, where the dull hum of traffic and

It all started on the way home from a great week of backcountry skiing at the Bogong Rover Chalet. We’d taken an alpine tent and spent a night camping out in the snow. And aside from numb toes in the chill of the morning, it was an amazing experience

Attempting Mount Rolleston was going to be my first proper outing into the world of crampons, ice axes and all-round epicness of mountaineering. Having done a snow skills weekend a month earlier, where we were taught the basics of manhandling your ax

The Gungarlin River, which really seemed nothing more than a creek in the Snowy Mountains, a tributary to the Snowy River above Jindabyne, had not really come on to my radar in all my years of paddling in the mountains. Little did I realise that it h

When we decided to move to Europe from Australia last year, the first thing I did was write ‘the list’. That list consisted of every European outdoor adventure I wanted to go after during our time living here, however long that might be. In the whirl

As we left Thredbo resort, Ryley looked back at me and said, ‘it’ll be fine’ as he held the rope up for me and local big mountain rider Ed to slip beneath. I was uneasy about leaving the resort that day, a few adverse weather events followed big snow

With hills of sculpted red stone and shady gorges hiding cool water holes, Mutawintji National Park must be outback NSWs best kept secret. Dominated by the rocky Bynguano Range, it boasts a network of excellent walking trails and, most impressively,

Also known as ‘slippery’, ‘slimy’ and ‘marbled river cod’, the river blackfish is a freshwater fish endemic to south-eastern Australia. They can be found throughout the Murray-Darling Basin, coastal rivers in southern Victoria and northern Tasmania,

Before the state election in March, thousands of people turned out in Hobart to save the Tarkine. It was the biggest Tasmanian rally for the environment in a decade. However, putting environmental concerns a long second to the urgency of widening roa

For 40 years the campaign to protect this area has been waged as logging interests continue to eye off the ancient timber within. This year, the Bob Brown Foundation partnered with what some might call an unlikely ally in the clothing brand Patagonia

The star turn of the Warrumbungle National Park is undoubtedly the Breadknife, one of Australia’s most unique and well known natural phenomena. the Breadknife, along with its rugged magma brethren, rises dramatically out of the Warrumbungles, and the

The granite mountain range of Wilsons Promontory rises imposingly from the Yanakie plains in South Gippsland, its highest peaks reaching 700_metres above sea level, and overlooking Bass Strait. And while Wilsons Promontory became a National Park in 1

The Banks Track is a 31-kilometre trail on Banks Peninsula, around 80 kilometres from Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island. While it may lack the fame of some of New Zealand’s great hiking trails, it is walked by around 2000 people each season.

I swear this photo wasn’t planned. Taking a break while high altitude hiking Africa, I removed my jacket to take a breather, where upon my buddy Christophe pulled off his jacket to reveal the same base layer underneath. With a chuckle, Kim also pulle

I’m testing the GL145 Causeway hiking poles from Helinox. Helinox is a company built around a very specific technology, namely TH72M alloy. Developed by the South Korean DAC company, TH72M is a very strong, yet very light aluminium and titanium alloy

You’d be forgiven for thinking that OtterBox was founded as a mobile phone case company. The brand has become synonymous with protecting iPhones, Galaxys and every other screen addict’s best friend. Visit any tech store and the walls are likely lined