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Author: Chris Watson
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300km solo through Lapland’s remote wilderness, with Albert Weckman
The stream grabbed the boat and capsized the whole thing. Albert stood in the shallows of the Vatsari Wilderness rapids, waist-deep in cold water, diving again and again to recover camera equipment, rucksack contents, and clothing from the riverbed. A…
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Lebanon’s hidden adventures: the 400km Boukaat Loubnan trail, with Gilbert Moukheiber
The shepherd’s tent is pitched at 2,800 metres, the wind scraping across the plateau. Inside, Gilbert Moukheiber leans over a steel plate set above glowing embers, watching dough stretch and darken into warm bread. Outside, the goats jostle and settle.…
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Walking the wildest rivers in Africa, with Chaz Powell
The temperature climbs to nearly 50 degrees Celsius. He stands on the plateau above the Zambezi gorge, half his water gone, his GPS broken in the heat, his bearing lost in the thorn scrub for the hundredth time. Below him,…
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How volcanoes and fault lines shaped Scotland, with geologist Luisa Hendry
She hands her mum her phone and stands beside a rock face in the Northwest Highlands. No script, no rehearsal. She just starts talking about the billion-year-old rocks behind her — their origin, their journey, their story. Then she films…
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Warrior Walker: walking around the UK, with Paul Harris (part 2)
It’s minus 16 in the Scottish Highlands. Paul Harris pulls off his glove to check his phone and the cold bites his bones instantly. He looks at a patch of woodland and thinks: just lie down for 30 minutes. His…
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Warrior Walker: 24,000 miles for purpose, peace and people, with Paul Harris (part 1)
The market in Kabul is open and crowded. Paul walks through, scanning the stalls. Grenade launchers. Knives. Pistols. All for sale. He doesn’t realise until later that the place is full of Taliban. His driver, Habib, had tried to warn…
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What the wild teaches us about life and leadership, with Megan Hine
Gunshots ricocheted off the sand beside her. Megan Hine dove into a small cave in the rock face, pressed against the stone, waiting. The firing swung around above the gorge. She sprinted down, slid into the water at the bottom,…
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Matriarchs of the animal kingdom with Erin Ranney.
Erin Ranney wasn’t yet a filmmaker when she picked up that blue Pentax camera in Madagascar. She was just a field tech chasing lemurs through the rainforest. Then something shifted — and the story of the wild became something she was meant to tell.
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Kite skiing across Antarctica at -62°C.
For sixty-two days, Justin Packshaw and Jamie Facer Childs kite-skied unsupported across Antarctica, pulling 200kg sledges through the coldest place on Earth. This wasn’t just exploration — it was a live human experiment for NASA, the European Space Agency, and Stanford.
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The first woman to walk France border to border.
Lauren Roerick hiked 3,034 kilometres across France — from the German frontier to the Spanish border — on a trail so new it barely had a name. She carried a tent, a stove, and a question: how far are you willing to walk to figure yourself out?
