Where Water Leads
frieda.bay
14th December, 2022
Writer and herbalist Frieda Kipar Bay tells of fleeing fire in California to follow the trail of migrating forests, in search of a safe haven for her family.
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.
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
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.
Silences of the North
Julia Loginova
12th January, 2022
Second post in our archive series is a compelling account by Julia Loginova of a train journey home across the oilfields of Russia chosen by Mark Watson from Issue 14 –TERRA
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'
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
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.