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Desert Heat and Mountain Storms
Motes of ochre and gold cover our shoes. Grains of sand, millennia old and shaped by wind and water, feel as insubstantial as flour or dust, yet all around us we see towers and walls, hundreds of feet tall, sculpted into wondrous forms from these same grains....
In Search of the Golden Eagle
David Dinsley is the warden of the Oa nature reserve on the Isle of Islay. Here he describes some of his encounters with the island’s enigmatic birds of prey....
Ocean to Asgard
Where is the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable risk? On Baffin Island, Bronwyn Hodgins finds loose rock, mountain splendour, and a sense of community....
Janhukot
An expedition to the Garwhal Himalayas to attempt a remote unclimbed 6805m peak called Janhukot, lying at the top of the Gangotri Glacier....
Close Encounters
In northern Pakistan, Ana-Maria Pavalache treks the Karakoram mountain range in the Shimshal Valley, on a journey of discovery and encounters with three glaciers, each one special and with a story to be shared....
Solitude Found
Dan Milner embarks on a six-day, 120-mile mountain bike traverse of the landlocked country of Lesotho, in South Africa....
The Shining Wall
One of Scott Adamson's passions was finding and climbing Zion ice. He spent many hours studying maps and many days seeking out the fickle, ethereal huge pillars hidden within remote slot canyons....
Kora
Simon Urwin embarks on a three-week journey from the Tibetan tracts of rural Yunnan province, onward to Lhasa, and then across to Everest Base Camp....
Towers of Tigray
James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini set out to explore the Tigray region of Ethiopia, searching for ancient routes and new adventure, with the added challenge of bringing a new team member along – their young son Arthur....
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