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.
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 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...
Somewhere
Mike Freeman
16th November, 2016
Shannon was five now, tall, still so wildly autistic that Karen and I ended a...
The Ik and the Old Way
Christopher MacDonald
3rd October, 2016
Due to drought and disruption by national boundaries of the traditional cycle of movement, the...
Self-Preservation in Our Protected Places
Tyler Dunning
12th September, 2016
Six years ago I set the goal of visiting all the US national parks –...
Poacher’s Pilgrimage
Alastair McIntosh
25th July, 2016
Extract from Poacher’s Pilgrimage: an Island Journey (Birlinn, 2016) It’s now so dark you have...
The Path to Odin’s Lake
Jason Heppenstall
28th May, 2016
. And it’s about to get much worse. It seems the climatic and biophysical systems...