Articles

The Arctic reindeer-herding legacy that links Scandinavia to Scotland. Published in Ernest.

An audio field guide to walking 2,500 miles. Published in Dark Mountain.

A journey into life and death in Białowieża, Europe’s largest surviving remnant of primeval forest. Published in Emergence.

On shifting normality and unexpected grief in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Published in Dark Mountain.

A meander down London’s River Lea, once the border between the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. Published in Waterfront.

The forging of the extinction bell for Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Published in Dark Mountain.

Exploring the mythology of Europe’s pre-Christian wind gods that still influence us today. Published in Emergence.

Jimi Hendrix? Climate change? How ring-necked parakeets took over London. Published in The Guardian.

An introduction to Lyall Watson’s ‘Heaven’s Breath’. Published by New York Review of Books.

Walking the Vie Cave in Italy, carved by the ancient Etruscans. Published in Guardian Travel.

Tracking the Celtic sources of Britain’s most commonly named river. Published in Waterfront.

A natural history of the Levanter wind that blows between Spain and Morocco. Published in Corriere della Sera.

On adapting to life as a stranger in the Lake District. Published in Caught By the River.

Reflections on a week in a pre-collapse geodesic dome. Published in Dark Mountain.

Reflections on the 60-year anniversary of the ‘conquest’ of Everest. Culturally, is it time to start coming down the mountain?

Following the flyways of the city’s bright green avian invaders. Published in Narratively.

An attempt to enter the landscape of Albania’s Accursed Mountains. Published in Elsewhere.

The myth of Everest, and my family connection to the world’s highest mountain. Published in The Guardian.