A Soft Armour
Monique Besten
28th March, 2014
I never stopped walking afterwards. Short distances. Longer distances. Walking words. My own name. The...
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.
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,...
The Bellwethers
Christy Rodgers
13th November, 2013
But that was just it – even though the numbers were there, and test after...
Another Bend in the Same Road
Nick Hunt
5th September, 2012
Part of me arrived when I saw the skyscrapers – an image I hadn’t expected,...
Concrete Coastline
Nick Hunt
10th August, 2012
‘You will see it further south,’ said Vassil, the archaeologist who was letting me sleep...
The Reality of Being Here
Nick Hunt
15th June, 2012
The second story was even more fantastic. Before there were mountains here – before there...
Walking… Philosophy… Waking: A Reverie
Andrew Taggart
6th June, 2012
I was reading Rousseau’s wanderings when I fell into a reverie. I heard her whisper,...
Wilder Country
Nick Hunt
12th May, 2012
A deep consciousness of this wildness exists in many of the Romanians I’ve met. They...
The Persenbeug Prediction
Nick Hunt
9th March, 2012
The sound it made was extraordinary. I had to keep stopping to listen. The...
In This Winter
Nick Hunt
24th February, 2012
The Alps, I knew, lay somewhere to my right, but for the past three days...
In Patagonia: Part 2
Paul Kingsnorth
26th January, 2012
I’m currently reading Gary Snyder’s book of essays The Practice of the Wild. Snyder is...