Wild Issue #200 Winter 2026

Contents

Journey Across Queen Maud Land on a Bike

I F YOU'RE LIKE ME, and question your life choices while riding your bike into a headwind or up a hill, you should check out Dr Kate Leeming's film, Journey Acr

The Cover Shot

Skiing in Tasmania is something that seems (and is) incredibly elusive. Marginal weather windows leave little room for getting out there during favourable snow

Letters

Hi James,

Celebrating 200

As a young student at Sydney University, I used to live in share accommodation, probably four different places in total. All were squalid. With one notable exce

Gallery

Tassie ice is here today and gone tomorrow, often only captured in momentary glimpses. Its ephemeral formations drape dolerite tors, offering world-class ice an

A beautiful planet

Bob.Brown.Foundation

Celebrating Care

Two hundred issues of Wild is a big deal, even just in terms of longevity: The magazine was first published in the map-and-compass days, survived the internet r

Once bitten

The rope jerked upwards, my belay hand pulled down to arrest the fall, and I was momentarily lifted off my feet. "Ow! I've been bitten! I've been bitten!" yelle

A wild niche

Mmm, can you smell that? Can you? It's there alright, that whiff of bibliosmia, a heady melange of ink, bleaching chemicals, adhesive and solvents. Go on, inhal

Winter Camping Gear

It was sometime around 2AM when I finally admitted I'd messed up. Snow had blown in under my tent, dusting my sleeping bag as I lay curled in a ball, trying not

Wild Shot

"As guides, we make an effort to lead by example, and stick to the middle of the track to avoid 'track widening'. In this case, that meant waist-deep mud, follo

Green Pages

Tasmania is famous for Lake St Clair, Australia's deepest freshwater lake and the southern gateway to the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. Unbeknown

Saving the Koala

Koalas are special in our culture—we call them dunggiirr ," says Micklo Jarrett.

The power of words: Remembering when Wild was a startup

I feel naked when I leave home without pen and paper. I have Chris Baxter to thank for this. We rarely conversed without one of us taking notes; a habit only su

A dirty dozen of the wildest wild shots

For forty-five years now, from the very second issue of the magazine, readers have been sending Wild irreverent, silly, daring, and sometimes just flat out craz

Perspectives: That's not how I remember it

You know when you're telling an anecdote and your partner/mate who was also there interrupts with, "No, that's not what happened," and proceeds to tell their ve

Loving the land to death

It's not every day that I'm taught how to shit in a bag—at least not from a stranger, and not in the shadow of a giant sandstone arch in Utah.

Lessons in overnight snowshoeing

Wind-driven sleet swirled out of the night, passing through the light of my headtorch as I stared at the transformed creek. Previously you could step across it.

How MSC makes a conditions report

10:15 AM. September 1, 2025. First day of spring. Mt Hotham's main car park. The conditions are bluebird, and the snow is excellent. Paddy Timms and Jess Wu are

John Chapman

Itold two friends I was going to interview Australian outdoor legend John Chapman, author and publisher of fifteen walking guidebooks, fourteen with wife Monica

Sharing the Ningaloo

Igrimly stuff dry bags into my kayak hatches with increasing speed as the lone figure proceeds down the beach towards me. It's the long weekend at one of the mo

The Cradle of Exploration

Ididn't come here for the predictable. Below my skis was a questionable vertical expanse of rock, ice and maybe even some snow. An icy couloir plunged down into

Reunion at Ettrema

Awhole year. That's how long it's been since the two of us last shared an outdoor pursuit. I'm not talking about me and my wife, Martine—we're out exploring on

Will Gadd meets Blue Lake

I F YOU HAD TO LIST ACTIVITIES THAT SEEM UNLIKELY in Australia, ice climbing would be near the top. So when my mate Hugh Newall mentioned Will Gadd was interest

Chasing Waterfalls

As Australia's highest single-drop waterfall, Wallaman Falls (268m) on Stoney Creek in Girringun National Park is a magnificent and awe-inspiring sight. It has

5 Ski Tours in Kozzie's Main Range

Y OU MAY HAVE WALKED IT IN SUMMER, glimpsed it from the lifts, or even toured parts of it already, but there's always more to uncover. The Main Range in Koscius

Washpool-Gibraltar Range Circuit

High up on the plateau to the west of Grafton and east of Glen Innes in northern NSW lies Gibraltar Range NP. It's a reserve of fantastic granite country, full

Summit Series Mountain Gore-Tex Pro Jacket and Bib

Intended use: Alpine climbing, mountaineering, backcountry snowsports

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