The Loch Beneath the Loch
Dougie Strang
11th December, 2019
This month's Featured Mountaineer, Dougie Strang walks though the North West Highlands of Scotland and encounters the invisible landscape of myth and story that lies beneath the surface
Journeys
Radiance by Kate Williamson
Dark Mountain began as an exhortation to leave the comfortable citadels and find the small paths that lead into the unknown, beyond the horizon of the world as we have known it.
This section is a home for writing about journeys in their many forms, the inner no less than the outer.
Lost in Transit
Catrina Davies
12th November, 2019
Catrina Davies reflects on our perilous relationship with transport on an epic cycle across the badlands of Spain. From our anniversary issue REFUGE.
Streamkeeping
Margaret Miller
27th August, 2018
Margaret Miller on streams that died and were brought to life again.
Dispatch 65: Wayfarer Waylaid
Narendra
28th May, 2018
The latest of Narendra's occasional dispatches from the tribal region of Bastar in Central India.
The Secret Opinions of Rivers
Paul Kingsnorth
16th May, 2018
Dark Mountain co-founder Paul Kingsnorth introduces his new poetry collection from the wilds of Patagonia.
Mapping the Edges
The Editors
29th March, 2018
We are now inviting submissions for Dark Mountain: Issue 14 – a special themed book about travel and dwelling, moving and staying, journeying and returning.
The Writing of Mountain Calls
Mike King
8th January, 2018
The connection that really mattered to me in writing Mountain Calls is with the last...
To a Faith in Place
Tyler Dunning
24th July, 2017
He turns to me, riding shotgun, believing the situation with his wife unclear: Call must...
Fragile
Peter Reason
31st May, 2017
I was in the final stages of my travels, which over two summers had taken...
Bastar: Dispatch Sixty
Narendra
1st February, 2017
Preface The greater part of my life happens to have been spent in and about...
Storm of Progress
Keith Helmuth
6th December, 2016
I was not prepared for this view. I was transfixed for over an hour, taking...