Some Opening Spreads From #198
Check out some opening spreads from a handful of feature stories and articles in Wild 198.
(These spreads originally featured in Wild #198, Summer 2025)
CIRCUMNAVIGATING LIFE
Diehard hiker Dan Slater has been transitioning towards a new obsession—paddling. And what better place to discover the kayaking equivalent of summit fever than Palau.
PARKS: WHERE FREEDOM LIVED
Victoria’s Labor government recently fronted a trade-union delegate conference not to discuss labour rights, but instead to back the whims of hunting groups and arms lobbyists who want to hunt in national parks.
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
After decades of many, many tramps in New Zealand’s South Island, Ryan Hansen figured it was time to check out the North. And what he found in the Ruahine Forest Park convinced him that North Island walking deserves more accolades.
NATURAL FOCUS
Few photographers have captured as many Australian’ wild places as Craig ‘Caz’ Fardell. And few have done it so beautifully. His outstanding imagery has been regularly gracing the pages of Wild Mag for fourteen years now, since Issue #122; sadly, with his passing in June this year at just age 58, these images—selected by Wild from his vast body of work—will be his final piece for the magazine.
HUMBLED AMONG GIANTS
Drew Jolowicz makes the pilgrimage to the birthplace of alpinism: Chamonix.
A LIVING LEGACY: HENRY BARBER TOURS AUSTRALIA
Henry Barber revolutionised Australian climbing back in the ‘70s. Last year he returned, and continued to spread his message of respect and the power of community.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
After being thwarted on Tasmania’s little-known Vale River a year earlier, a crew of Taswegian packrafters returned to complete one of Australia’s most spectacular packrafting adventures.
NO SURRENDER!
Given the fact Timor-Leste is one of Australia’s closest neighbours, given the intertwining of our histories, and given the trekking there is so fantastic, it’s time that this fabulous destination was on more adventurers’ radars.
IN SEARCH OF THE LOVERS OF THE SHADLOWLAND
Prostanthera discolor is one of Australia’s most elusive plants, with only a single confirmed community in existence. A team set off into the wilds of NSW’s Wollemi National Park to see if they could find another community of the plant that has not been confirmed since the 1980s.
REWRITING THE STORY
Before moving to New Zealand, Victoria Bruce had a painful childhood in Tasmania. Now with a daughter of her own, she returned with her to Tassie, home of memories both light and dark, to create a new chapter in their shared lives.
