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 –...
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.
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...
Baucis and Philemon in the 21st Century
Christy Rodgers
3rd February, 2016
On childlessness, and living small, in an age of endless expansion.
Snow vs. Suicide
Will Falk
6th January, 2016
It’s been ten years since I packed my parents’ 1992 black Chevy suburban on a...
I Remember
Caroline Williams
23rd December, 2015
In June 2008 twenty-nine people stopped a coal train heading for Drax power station. In...
Epilogue
Jeppe Graugaard
23rd February, 2015
Crossing the river Eider on the Rensburger Hochbrücke, I get a magnificent view of the...
The Way I Walk is Just the Way I Walk
Jim Fearnley
5th September, 2014
Our vexed relationship with ourselves as nature There is a widespread assumption running through many...
Crawling Home
Robert Leaver
2nd July, 2014
Waiting for my wingman at the very bottom of Broadway. This route was once a...
Rounding Bolus Head
Peter Reason
21st May, 2014
Once well clear of the hazards I turned west toward Bolus Head. Although still no...
A Soft Armour
Monique Besten
28th March, 2014
I never stopped walking afterwards. Short distances. Longer distances. Walking words. My own name. The...
Living landscapes: climate change in the Andes
Rosalyn Bold
26th December, 2013
I had come to ask permission to conduct research on how the climate was changing,...