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The Great Unknown
Lachlan Gardiner heads into Nepal’s wildest reaches for a month with mountaineering legend Tim Macartney-Snape.
Conservation: Luxury Lodges = Wilderness Lost
The second installment of Wild’s two-part feature examining the threats posed by private lodge developments in our national parks.
Photo essay: The Tree Projects
Tasmanian photographer Steve Pearce has been traveling the country, and indeed the world, to document the largest living things on earth: giant trees.
Hiking in NZ’s Wangapeka
Ryan Hansen wants to propose to his partner Martine Fogg but can’t figure out the right way to do it … until he gets to NZ’s Wangapeka Trail.
Profile: Lucy Barnard
Australia’s Lucy Barnard is walking to the ends of the earth, literally. Megan Holbeck catches up with her.
Track Notes: Three Capes on the Cheap
Tasmania’s Three Capes Track is known for its expensive private lodges that cost thousands of dollars for just a few nights. What’s far less well-known is that you can do the trick for next to nothing. We explain how.
A Tale of Two Rivers
Huw Kingston paddles Australia’s highest and lowest rivers, the Snowy and the Warburton.
Sacred Steps
Off-trail in far western NSW’s Mutawintji NP, Craig Pearce searches for insight.

Small pieces
Bush-bashing is too confrontational, argues Andy Szollosi. Try Scrub Wriggling instead.
Opinion: David Bell pushes for 1000km of the new walking track in NSW in the next decade
Conservation: AusTurtle is an all-volunteer group researching flatback turtles in the NT

Get set for Autumn with Wild Issue #191, 2024. It’s another awesome issue, with Australia’s best adventure and conservation writing and photography. Equally inspirational and informative, this issue has walking in Tassie at Mt Anne, a visually stunning piece on MTB-ing in Pakistan, and a guide to hiking in southwest WA. There’s also caving in NZ’s South Island, running WA’s iconic Gibb River Road, hiking on NZ’s subantarctic islands, a truly inspirational photo essay on the Kimberley, a very silly re-creation of a very silly photo that ran in Wild back in the 90s, and there’s the harrowing tale of how one Wild reader fell while climbing QLD’s Mt Barney, but only found out after he’d got home that he’d broken his neck.

But it’s not just adventure. There’s a great profile on Taswegian educator, photographer, conservationist and adventurer Peter Marmion. An important conversation with ecologist Mark Graham about the threats facing NSW’s Mid-North Coast. A history on how the Tasmanian masked owl is saving the Tarkine. On top of that, there are thoughtful opinion pieces, our awesome columnists, our Green Pages, our Wild Shot, and so much more.

Get ready to plunge into summer with Wild #190, jam-packed with Australian adventure, conservation, opinion pieces, and more. We’ve got walking in the Victorian High Country, in Tassie’s Western Arthurs, and in Kosciuszko NP; a guide for getting into packrafting; canyoning in NSW’s Blue Mountains; a photo essay from Dylan Robinson covering the deepest snow in backcountry surrounding Japan’s Nozawa Onsen; Kelly Kavanagh's adventurous 62-day epic ski to the South Pole, and a very heartfelt story by Mat Young on how three months of alpine climbing and splitboarding in NZ’s South Island helped him overcome an intense sense of isolation after leaving the Army.
Aside from our adventurous stories, we also have a profile piece on Beau Miles; a tale about surviving Salt Lake City’s Outdoor Retailer trade show; a piece on crag stewardship as climbers work to improve both their communities and the environs they climb in, as well as our regulars, awesome columnists, our Green Pages, our Wild Shot, and so more.

Since 1981, Wild Magazine has been the inspiring voice of the Australian outdoors, and a passionate defender of its wild places. With stunning photography and crafted, well-written tales of adventure, conservation, and the outdoor life, Wild tells stories that matter.

Wild #188, Winter 2023, has gone to the printers and will start arriving in subscribers’ mailboxes in just over a week’s time!


Naturally, being winter, there are lots of stories about snow: on chasing Australia’s best backcountry lines; on walking the AAWT in winter; and (in a story by Tom O’Halloran, who represented Oz in climbing at Tokyo Olympics) on getting introduced to winter mountaineering in Aussie Alps. In the northern hemisphere, though, it’s summer, but that doesn’t mean there’s no snow on the ground, especially in a place like Greenland, from where we’ve got an absolutely fantastic piece on expedition paddleboarding. In other parts of Europe, though, the snow is disappearing all too fast, and we have a story on mountaineering in Monte Rosa, where disappearing glaciers are changing the nature of climbing there.  


Wild #187 is finally here, full of Australia’s best adventure, conservation, and wilderness opinion writing. In this issue, we have stories from Caro Ryan, who gives us a fictional account of how a search and rescue might typically unfold; from John Chapman, who has discovered a new hike within California's Sierra Nevada; and from photographer David Nielson, who has shared with us a wild photo essay chosen from his book Chasing the Mountain Light, capturing his trips and adventures to the furthest corners of the planet.

We’ve also got packrafting Tasmania's west coast, canyoning ethics, a wild 12-day ski trip in Sweden's far north, great walks and hikes along Western Australia's coral coast, a piece discussing the threat of climate change destroying the hard work of Australians campaigning to protect our national parks, an opinion piece on going solo in the bush, and so much more.

Photo Essay: No Surrender
Photographer Matthew Newton has for more than twenty years been documenting the brave struggle of those fighting—often by literally putting their bodies on the line—to protect Tasmania’s natural heritage.

The Trap
Decision-making in the mountains is not always easy, and even the best of us need to not let irrelevant factors cloud our judgement, writes famed pro-skier Janina Kuzma.

Steve Leeder’s air is just part of the winter celebration we’re having in Issue #184: There’s a photo essay of Steve’s backcountry aerial antics; Shaun Mittwollen writes thoughtfully on what it means to be a snow hunter in Tasmania’s rugged peaks; and Nat Walkom tells the tale of his (not always smooth) entry in the world of ice climbing at Kosciuszko NP’s Blue Lake.

 But let’s not forget that winter in Australia doesn’t necessarily mean snow and ice: We tell you where to find the best trails in Queensland’s Scenic Rim; and we have a lyrical feature from Ross Hanan who writes philosophically about the Top End’s Jatbula Trail. And speaking of being philosophical, we have a very special piece from hemiplegic Paul Pritchard, who writes movingly of what being in the mountains means for him despite the challenges they present. We also have an insightful feature by Ryan Hansen, ‘The Lost Art of taking It Easy’, that came courtesy of multiple trips to northern NSW’s remarkable Gibraltar Range.

It’s an awesome issue, one of Wild’s best ever, with several stories in there—like Dan Slater’s piece on paddling Tasmania’s Western Arthurs, and Alex Parson’s account of being bitten by a snake in the Kimberley—destined to become all-time classics. There’s also a piece by Bob Brown, Christine Milne and Tabatha Badger looking at Lake Pedder; a piece on climbing all NZ’s 3000+m peaks in a single month; a feature on walking the Top End’s little-known Tabletop Track; track notes on WA’s surprising Stirling Ranges; a photo essay on Kosciuszko's high country huts; and loads more. And not only are the stories themselves amazing; the issue has been bumped up to 124 pages, and there’s also been a complete redesign of the mag, too.

It’s an issue to get you in the mood for summer, with a focus on Australia’s high country. There’s a piece by Craig Pearce on walking on the Bogong High Plains; ride notes by yours truly on bikepacking in the Jagungal Wilderness and Kosciuszko NP; and, by Andrew Nest, a fiction piece—OK, some you may say that contributors are telling tall tales in the mag all the time, but AFAIK this is our first dedicated fiction piece in 25 years—with a heck of twist to it that’s set around Victoria’s Mt Howitt and the Crosscut Saw.
There are other nods to summer, too. There’s Stan Meissner’s fantastically photographed sea kayaking expedition off Tasmania’s coast (check out that cover!); Craig Pearce’s list of top ten recent nature books if you’re after summer reading; Ryan Hansen’s photo essay on chasing little-known summer walks in NZ’s South Island; and an informative piece by Roland Handel on dehydration and heat exhaustion. 
Beyond these, in terms of features, Megan Holbeck has done a profile of the ‘Golden Decade’ of climbing at Mt Arapiles (we’ll hold the surprise for the time being by not telling you the years yet). In ‘Walking on Country’, Caro Ryan investigates the challenges facing Indigenous-owned and operated guided walking companies, specifically looking at lutruwita/Tasmania’s wukalina Walk. And Neil Silverwood has written a companion piece to last issue’s ‘What Do We Mean When We Talk About Wilderness’, this one focuses on New Zealand’s Wilderness Areas, and how they compare with Australia’s.
There’s also a conservation piece on the threats facing jarrah forests in WA, an opinion piece by filmmaker and author Beau Miles, and a swag more in this awesome issue. It’s going to the printers at the end of the week and if you subscribe now, you’ll be in time to get it. Head to wild.com.au/subscribe. 

What is Wild? Wild is adventure. Wild is conservation. Wild is wilderness. Wild is, and has been for nearly 40 years, the inspiring voice of the Australian outdoors. Wild is self-reliance and challenge and sometimes doing it tough. While Wild is not necessarily hard-core, what it certainly is not is soft-core. It is not glamping. It is not about being pampered while experiencing the outdoors. Wild does not speak down to experienced adventurers. Although Wild is not inaccessible to those just starting out in the outdoors, our primary focus is on those with some level of experience. Every adventurer is only a beginner once in their outdoors career; for the next 30 or 40 years, they want material that speaks to them, not simplistic content aimed at the lowest common denominator. Wild does not look on conservation as a mere marketing tool. For nearly four decades, Wild has actively and fiercely fought for the environment. Campaigning to protect our wild places is part of our DNA. Lastly, Wild is about telling stories that matter, stories that resonate with our readers. Wild is about deep engagement. It is about inspiration. It is about passion.

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What is Wild? Wild is an adventure. Wild is conservation. Wild is wilderness. Wild is, and has been for nearly 40 years, the inspiring voice of the Australian outdoors. Wild is self-reliance and challenge and sometimes doing it tough.

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