Wild

Australia's Wilderness Adventure Magazine. Expand your horizons with Australia’s longest running wilderness adventure magazine. With in-depth features and stunning photographs from some of the world’s greatest adventurers, WILD will keep you up-to-date on all aspects of wilderness pursuits.

Wild Letters

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On The Cover

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GALLERY

Never Give Up • Over the last forty years, Wild has lifted spirits in dark times.

Mid-life Reflections • Four decades of Wild Magazine.

Constancy Amid Change • While I might never hitchhike again, Wild is something I hope to return to for a long time yet.

The Future Is Now • Looking back on the gear of yesteryear.

HUNTING THE HUNTERS • Feral cats kill perhaps two billion Australian animals every year, including the critically endangered night parrot. Bush Heritage Australia is seeking to change that.

IN BRIEF

Reef Regeneration • An innovative, multi-stakeholder reef restoration project using loose coral fragments to build new live coral reef habitat is underway at Green Island in the Great Barrier Reef.

Practice MakesPerfect • Mountain Safety Collective has partnered with the community to bring Australia its first Avalanche Training Centre.

A Gathering of the Tribe • The annual Victorian Backcountry Festival is young, but growing fast. And not only is the event loads of fun, it’s improving backcountry snow safety and participant diversity.

Q + A with POW’s Josh Fletcher

The DWR Conundrum • DWR has long been integral to performance raingear. But DWR’s reliance on perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) is troubling. We need to do better.

THE Wild FILM FESTIVAL

NATHAN MCNEIL • SPEAKS ABOUT IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JOHN STUART

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A Snow-starved ‘Stralian Soul • An account in verse of the first female ascent of Aoraki/Mount Cook by Emmeline ‘Freda’ Du Faur in 1910

Therapy Gone Wild • Long have we taken our worries into the wilderness, but today, a new kind of healing is taking place in Australia’s wild lands as therapists exit their offices, strap on backpacks, and let nature and adventure nurture at-risk teenagers.

A Wild-inspired life • Toby Ryston-Pratt, Publisher of Wild and CEO of Adventure Entertainment, reflects on the magazine’s past, present and future.

Best Wishes • From some Wild friends over the decades

Wild at 40 • Our regular contributor of profiles for the magazine, Megan Holbeck, changes her gaze with a profile of a different sort: one on Wild itself.

PRODUCTION IN THE ‘80s OF Wild • Glenn van der Knijff joined the Wild production team in the late 80s. His ‘official’ role, at least according to Wild’s masthead at the time, was ‘Maps & Mail Orders’, but really, he was a Jack-of-all-trades involved with many aspects of the mag. Here, he reflects on some of the processes involved in creating Wild #33, Winter 1989.

DESIGN & LAYOUT

EDITING

MAPPING

Reflections on 40 Years • Quentin Chester has probably had a hand in more issues of Wild than anyone else.

EVERY Wild COVER EVER • In 40 years, we’ve run a lot of covers. Here’s the collection in its entirety.

One Grand Winter • Shaun Mittwollen and Ben Armstrong spent the entire winter season of 2020 chasing epic snow in the wilds of Tasmania, and notched up a string of rare ski descents.

40 YEARS OF Wild ADVENTURES • Janette Asche has been a reader of Wild since its very first issue back in 1981. And in the forty...