Some Opening Spreads from #200

THE CRADLE OF EXPLORATION

Cradle Mountain is famous for many things, but skiing is not usually one of them. Shaun Mittwollen sets out to change that with a bold descent into one of the mountain’s least-known zones.

There may be no better way to experience Ningaloo Reef than by kayak. Joel Johnsson follows a little-known coastal trail through one of Australia’s greatest marine wildernesses and asks whether telling Ningaloo’s story may be the key to protecting it.

Four days navigating Ettrema Gorge remind Ryan Hansen that the greatest reward of venturing into the bush isn’t always the landscape. Sometimes it’s the people beside you.

John Chapman contributed to WILD’s very first issue. He also appears in its most recent. Megan Holbeck reflects on the many reasons Australia’s bushwalking community has to be grateful for one of its quiet giants.

If foreigners are surprised to learn that there is even snow in Australia, they’re more surprised still to discover that there’s ice to climb. When world-renowned Canadian ice climber and Red Bull athlete Will Gadd visited Kosciuszko NP’s Blue Lake last year, he discovered something that even Aussies don’t seem to know: There’s some genuinely good ice climbing to be found here.

What drives people to battle dense rainforest, painful stings and uncertain terrain for a glimpse of falling water? Madoc Sheehan investigates the strange allure of chasing waterfalls through North Queensland’s wild places.

Long before social media, WILD readers were sharing their funniest, strangest and most unforgettable outdoor moments. James McCormack dusts off the archives to showcase a dirty dozen of Wild Shot classics.

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