WILD Magazine - Edition 179

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Features

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