Dust Storms May Exist
Cayte Bosler
3rd October, 2021
Cayte Bosler retraces the roads taken by pioneer US motorist Alice Ramsey, seeking what remains of the natural world in 'this strange age of technocratic fever dreams'
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.
The Edges of the Earth
Dawid
3rd March, 2021
Dawid Juraszek stands on the banks of the Bosphorus and reflects on the modern drive to keep moving at all cost.
Crossing the Water
Ben Kilbourne
30th December, 2020
New for the walking series: Ben Kilbourne heads into the Mazatzal Wilderness of central Arizona on the edge of a pandemic.
The Thousand Mile Dress
Jonny Randall
1st July, 2020
Filmmaker Jonny Randall shares his film 'The Thousand Mile Dress', following Katie Duxbury's journey around Britain in a handmade costume
A’ Mhòine
Dougie Strang
24th June, 2020
Dougie Strang writes of the 'strength stone' and a month-long walk in the North West Highlands of Scotland.
Eleven Stones
Freya Gabie
18th June, 2020
To continue our walking series, artist Freya Gabie retraces the journey of a Russian refugee across Europe in 1929
A Sea Journey on Foot
Monique Besten
10th June, 2020
Walking artist Monique Besten tells the story of a 55-day walk to the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris in 2015, excerpted from a piece originally published in Dark Mountain: Issue 9.
Walking the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Albert Vetere Lannon
4th June, 2020
Albert Vetere Lannon continues our walking series with a journey into a forested wilderness not far from New York City
How to Walk Across Europe
Nick Hunt
28th May, 2020
To launch our new series about walking, here is an audio field guide to crossing a continent on foot
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
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.