IN THE ORIGINAL 1993 Jurassic Park movie, it was Dr Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum) who delivered the nowfamous line: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”...
IPACK AWAY my tent, much as I’ve done every morning for the past two weeks.The 3am moonlight glistens on the nameless, ice-covered river below. I’m 12 days into a climb to the river’s source, high in a largely unmapped region on the Kashmir–Ladakh...
WAY UP BACK of the Dubbo Showground, past the Ferris wheel and the showbags and the working dog trials, dance music thumps from a big shed, drowning out the sounds of carnival games and cattle auctions as you approach. Inside the shed,...
IT’S 10AM, BLOWING a gale, and Tim Winton’s brow is furrowed. We’ve been watching the forecast for days, holding our breath as the ocean chops and wind howls in all the wrong directions. Our goal? To explore Exmouth Gulf by water, a haven of...
