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(Re: Wild #187’s cover story on Tasmania’s wild Frankland Range) Dear James, In February 2013, Paul (left) and myself (right) plus Shaw did an epic trip doing both the Frankland Range and the Mt Anne Circuit. This picture was taken after completing o

“Ok Chris, you need to pull back to wait for Tim and Divya.” “Copy.” Chris Wills eats vert for breakfast. That posed a problem for this shot lining up perfectly; I was unable to get Chris on the radio for a while, and with his unbelievable tendency t

Back in the 1990s, two psychology professors at Cornell University in the US gave a cohort of undergrad students a logic test. Their aim was to analyse whether intelligence, or lack thereof, influenced self-awareness. And what they—one being David Du

Victoria’s Alpine National Park only partially protects the forests of the state’s High Country. Ceasing native-forest logging in the areas around the park needs to begin now. Many Wild readers were part of the long and ultimately successful campaign

When I meet Tyto, she has been living in a myrtle tree in takayna/Tarkine for 71 days. That’s over 1,700 hours. During that time, she has been bored exactly once. “I was complaining, like, “Olive, I am feeling bored!” Tyto jokes. “That happened somew

It was a single line on the bottom of a page in the only English book in the common room of the Spanish-speaking hostel I was visiting. I would have overlooked it, had my thumb not caught on the page as I flicked through. A town name and this quote:

Few people have captured the East Kimberley’s stunning beauty better than local photographer and Wild Earth Ambassador Ben Broady. Here are his tips for doing the scenery there justice. Instead of shivering away in the southern states all winter, the

Dr Philip Zylstra is a fire scientist and forest ecologist who looks at how plant species interact with weather and the terrain to affect fire behaviour, and how this in turn affects the survival of flora and fauna. His work has led to groundbreaking

The Australian mountains have seen their first handful of snowstorms. Today I was pelted by hail up at Charlotte Pass; meanwhile, there was slush at my feet and the snow gums collected an icy armour. Winter is nearly here, and as our fingers get cold

“This fucked,” I think for the third time in ten seconds. The snow seems to be coming in faster than we can get “This rid of it. At this point, having lost my gloves in the snow twenty minutes earlier, my hands can’t feel the shovel; the numbness is

I stare up at the never-ending slope of ice looming large in front of us, trying to discern if I have a good or bad gut feeling. No feelings at all. As we tie the figure-8 loops into our harnesses, I find myself rubbing the tiny brown toy-horse keeps

“This isn’t it.” I was getting saturated, huddling under a rock with two other sweaty dudes, and in a total whiteout at the top of the continent. The winds were howling. “What?” yelled Chris. “I don’t know much about survival,” I shouted back. “But t

HALFWAY BETWEEN STANTHORPE AND TENTERFIELD, nestling against the NSW border, lies one of Queensland’s most spectacular reserves: Girraween National Park. Roughly 120,000 annual visitors come to experience the 12,000ha park’s vast expanses of impressi

In 2021, at the height of Australia’s COVID lockdowns, I took to stealth camping in a city park. This wasn’t ideal, but sleeping outside has long been a psychological pressure-relief valve for me, and I was going crazy without it. The grove that I hu

We were only six hours into what was meant to be an easy five-day tour when we saved a man’s life. By ‘we’, I don’t mean ‘me’. Nor do I mean Peter, my partner in both life and on this climb. By ‘we’, I mean Will. Peter and I are alpine amateurs; our

We were in over our heads. Here we were, on the final climb to Magdala’s summit, and two options presented themselves: Either go directly over the massive cornice, or traverse around and ascend the southern (and wind-slab avalanche-prone) aspect. It

TO WINTER CAMP IN THE MOUNTAINS is to experience their truest form. They are raw. Wild. Inhospitable. The peaks are alive as spindrift wafts from knife-edged ridges, as idyllic lakes fill in and become powdery bowls, and as avalanches transport froze

THE SOUTH COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES offers some of Australia’s finest coastal scenery. Few sections are better, however, than that along the route of NSW’s newest ‘Great Walk’, which opened only in April 2023: The Murramarang South Coast Walk (SCW). I

PAST Outdoors offers a carefully selected range of hiking, camping and expedition equipment tailored to meet the needs of your next adventure. They also manufacture a range of ultralight shelters that can be heated with a titanium wood stove. When yo

Lauren wins an awesome Osprey MUTANT 22 climbing pack. It features integrated rope carry, a wide-mouth zippered opening, customisable options for carrying crampons/other items on the front of the pack, a secure and easy-to-use ice tool carry system,