ALL of 10 results for "Environment"
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Twilight on Everest
August 1997 • 913 words • Reportage & Criticism
Climbing Everest is tough work—but not as tough as all that. Nearly a thousand people have done it. You or I could do it—probably—if we… more»
In at the deep end
14 July 1985 • 1,414 words • Reportage & Criticism
Leo, a high diver at the Royal American Shows, a travelling fair where I worked one summer in Canada, told me, as we poured paraffin… more»
The man who bought a rainforest
1988 • 5,781 words • Reportage & Criticism
We are making our way along a remote fjord in southern Chile, against the wind and tide. There are three of us in the boat:… more»
In the mirror of the dark
23 June 1995 • 701 words • City of Words
Tonight on the Athi Plains, near Nairobi, as the sun sets behind the Ngong Hills—site of Karen Blixen’s settler pastoral, now the haunt of panga-wielding… more»
From the Florida Strait to the Pleistocene
1997 • 889 words • City of Words
The sea journey from Cuba to the Florida keys is no joke, even… more»
A new acquisition for the national gallery of nature
19 October 1998 • 983 words • City of Words
I first went up Yr Wyddfa—Snowdon to the English—at the age of two,… more»
The satellite phone and the call of the wild
5 January 1998 • 1,221 words • City of Words
I spent Christmas on a volcano in Uganda thinking about e-mail. E-mail? Isn’t the whole point of… more»
Of funerals and floating islands
January 1998 • 806 words • City of Words
The floating islands of Lake Kyoga have an air of myth about them, as though they sprang from a realm of sword and sorcery. But… more»
Eyeing the hurricane
4 October 1998 • 1,378 words • City of Words
I was diving with my nephew Tom Walmsley off the reef at Paradise Point, ogling the parrotfish and baby sharks, when the 48-hour hurricane warning… more»
07.05.2015 All along the Bays
7 May 2015 • 1,855 words • Field Notes
Yesterday I walked from Tivoli, a village in upstate New York where I… more»
