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 Life Cycle

Katerawles
25th August, 2023
Beginning in 2017, Kate Rawles traversed South America along the spine of the Andes, In today's post she outlines the journey and the mindset of extractivism that besets the extraordinary lands she travelled through.
JourneysOf Earth and Empire

Peace and Fire

Nick Hunt
7th November, 2022
First post in a thread of stories about place and time: Nick Hunt follows the Walk of Peace trail in Slovenia through a landscape scarred by frontlines and wildfires
JourneysPlace & Time

Pilgrimage

Ian Nesbitt
2nd February, 2022
On sin eaters, sleeping in yews and entanglement with grief: latesf for our walking series, Ian Nesbitt sets out on a post-pandemic pilgrimage along the Old Way.
Journeys

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

The Brujo

Nick Hunt
2nd June, 2021
An excerpt from Nick Hunt's new book ‘Outlandish: Walking Europe's Unlikely Landscapes’
Journeys

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
Journeys