Wild

A few months ago, at the end of a fifty-kilometre ride, as I coasted home down the final stretch of bushland road that gently meanders through a forest of gnarled angophora, I was nearly knocked off my bike by a deer. There I was, minding my own busi

Brady Hayes walks across Australia’s longest-ever highline. In NSW’s Blue Mountains, in November 2022, a team including Brady pulled together to set this highline spanning 1,290m in length. As the day drew to a close, and with the wind making its pre

Odonata Foundation’s Academy Mastermind program is working with landholders to establish threatened-species sanctuaries on their properties. The program has helped regenerate populations of some of Australia’s most threatened species like the souther

After World War Two, a growing appreciation of the Australian landscape and an emerging conservation movement led millions of people to become involved in campaigns to protect our wild and special places. From the Little Desert campaign in Victoria i

There is a process that tends to occur in the lead up to a solo wilderness excursion. It all begins with the awakening of a strong desire to visit a place, to experience it first hand. It might be born out of a story we have heard, or a photograph we

WILD: You’re the CEO and Co-Founder of For Wild Places. Tell us a little about what FWP wants to achieve. HM: Our mission is to make trail running a meaningful expression of environmental activism. We want to connect the community with actionable way

Every outdoor enthusiast has a memory of that trip. The one where they understood the feeling of being properly immersed. This was that memory. The better part of a week spent getting lost, levitating metres above the ground in tangled bauera, drinki

*Giitu means ‘Thank you’ in the local Sámi language April 2021. I’m standing on a glacier in Stora Sjöfallet National Park, Sweden, crying with awe. I am—after skiing one of the best runs of my life, after spending ten days here working on a film cal

This story is a work of fiction, but based on Caro’s 19 years of actual search jobs. The headlights of the Subaru Forester work hard to cut through the mountain mist as Dave turns off the bitumen. Dropping his speed to avoid kangaroos and potholes, t

On December 14, 1982, the Franklin blockade began. Fifty-three people were arrested on the banks of the Franklin and Gordon rivers, attempting to stop construction of a huge dam that threatened mile after mile of rainforests, limestone caves, gorges

MY INITIAL INTEREST IN PHOTOGRAPHY grew out of my early rock climbing and mountaineering activities. From the very beginning, I was drawn to black and white photography, and it has remained my favourite medium. The stripping away of colour can reveal

Some have been smart enough to examine Helicopter’s forbidding battleship prow and decline the opportunity. Too wet, too exposed, too vertical—it takes bravery to pull the pin, recalibrate and backtrack. Not many people are smart or agile enough to d

(unless otherwise credited) Reconsidering canyoning ethics Canyoning is my favourite outdoor pursuit. They’re exquisite places, canyons. But they’re also incredibly sensitive environments. And with more people—not just in Australia, but international

BEST KNOWN FOR ITS WATERY ADVENTURES on Ningaloo—Australia’s largest fringing reef—the Coral Coast is a surprising place to tackle a bushwalk. From the Kennedy Range and Karijini National Parks, to Kalbarri, Cape Range and Francois Peron in Shark Bay

LESS THAN SIXTY KILOMETRES TO THE NORTHWEST of Sydney lies Wollemi National Park, which at over half a million hectares is the second largest in NSW. Seventy per cent of the park is officially declared wilderness, and much of the park’s interior is a

17km; 110m ascent/590m descent; approx 7-10 hours From Sams Way, walk north along the fire trail for 400m to a fork in the trail and a locked gate. The left-hand branch is the Tootie Creek (T3) Track, which you will return on. The righthand branch is

A marvel in ultralightweight engineering. WHEN IT COMES TO GEAR, I’m a bit of a weight weenie. Partly that comes from my background as a professional adventure photographer, when to counteract the weight of all the heavy photographic equipment I’d lu

FOUR YEARS AGO, I was introduced to canyoning with your typical first-timer’s trip to Twister/Rocky Creek Canyon. Along with the excitement of the ferns and the goodness of the beams, it was during this trip that I became acutely aware of my lacking

Adventurers like you live the part, not just look it. So this Christmas, you can make sure your loved ones do too. Adrenaline’s adventure range has been designed for all levels of activity, from mountain biking and horse riding, to canyoning and hiki

Wild is no ordinary magazine. Since its establishment in 1981, Wild has been the inspiring voice of the Australian outdoors. It is a magazine of self-reliance and challenge and sometimes doing it tough. While it is not necessarily hard-core, what it

A Grand Traverse along the Range of Light JOHN MUIR, WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL in the creation of Yosemite and other national parks in America, called California’s Sierra Nevada mountains ‘The Range of Light’. With clear, cobalt-blue skies during the day,

Dear Wild, I became very emotional watching the new film, Franklin. The film relives the Tasmanian dams campaign through the eyes of a young man retracing his father’s rafting trip on the way to getting arrested at the Gordon River blockade. They wer

ONE OF MY FAVOURITE trail running T-shirts has a problem. Yes, it’s comfortable on the trail. Yes, it fits me well. Yes, it looks half-decent, too, with a colour that, if I don’t say so myself, actually suits me. But hoh boy! Does it ever stink! At l

WHEN IT COMES TO SLEEPING SNUGLY, the debate of quilts vs sleeping bags is a divisive one. Most people seem to either despise sleeping bags and every feather of their existence, or they think they’re the bomb.com; there don’t seem to be many people i