Wild

Australia's Wilderness Adventure Magazine. Expand your horizons with Australia’s longest running wilderness adventure magazine. With in-depth features and stunning photographs from some of the world’s greatest adventurers, WILD will keep you up-to-date on all aspects of wilderness pursuits.

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Wake Up

Wild Letters

One Last Time • A letter from Roland Handel, ex-publisher of Wild.

GALLERY

The Wentworth Hills • A proposal to protect this little known wilderness needs your help.

Ghosts, snow and mountain ash • Time travel via the trees.

The Dao of Tea • A simple cuppa is one of the joys of adventuring.

Modern Ultralight Fabrics • Dyneema is coming Down Under.

Great Forests National Park • In the wake of these fires, Victoria’s proposed Great Forests National Park is more important than ever.

Q+A with Robert Kooyman • With all the sombre news associated with the recent bushfires, one bright spot was the well-publicised effort to save the endangered Wollemi pine. Fire crews were choppered in, and images of their efforts were splashed around media outlets globally. But another ancient Australian tree, only ‘discovered’ in 2000, more recently than the Wollemi pine, and equally rare, with just roughly 125 adult trees, escaped media attention almost entirely when its habitat was subject to fire. Wild speaks with Macquarie University botanist Dr Robert Kooyman, discoverer of the Nightcap oak.

The Battle for the Southeast Forests • The story of Australia’s longest ever environmental campaign.

Charred Country • These unprecedented fires change everything. Climate change is no longer something to worry about in the future; it affects us all here and now.

AMA DABLAM • An ascent of one the world’s most beautful mountains.

EULOGY FOR OUR WILDERNESS • In December 2019, deep in the heart of Kosciuszko National Park, Craig Pearce and his son find themselves cut off by fire.

TATSHENSHINI BLUES • Real adventure involves hardship, right? What do you do, then, when the weather is glorious, the food sumptuous, and the scenery amazing? Flint Duxfield finds an unexpected way to suffer, and in the process arrives at some ethical quandaries.

ROCKING THE PILBARA • Two weeks spent traversing the Pilbara gave Grant Dixon the opportunity to explore his sense of scale and time.

WHERE THE HELL IS CAMERON? • Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Nathan MacNeil sets off in search of Cameron Hut, deep in New Zealand’s Arrowsmith Range.

CANYONING IN WANAKA • High volume water in preposterously beautiful, and often challenging, settings can make any trip into Wanaka’s canyons an adventure to remember.

INDIA LEH & LADAKH • The remote, beautiful city of Leh in India’s Ladakh region is your gateway to a cultural and adventure experience like no other.

The Bluff to Mt Cobbler

MOUNTAIN FILM

THE LONELIEST MAN ON EARTH

Watercell bladders • Because you’re not a camel.

Futurelight Footwear • Get (Future)light on your feet.

Ducan Spine • Natural movement.

Futurelight Freethinker Shells • Gamechanging technology.

Exos 58 • Featherwieght comfort.

Escape Cup & Bowl • Dine in style.

Sleeping mats • Wanna sleep like a baby in the great outdoors? Read on.

STOCKISTS

Outdoor Research • Ron Gregg—physicist, adventurer and founder of OR—was a force of nature.

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