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Riding with Norway’s dog sled champion
Aspiring documentary maker Kelsey Eichhorn witnesses first-hand this unique marriage of man and animal… At 7.00am in late October I am just beginning to get the feeling that something is not quite right with the sun they use up here in Norway. It is pitch black outside my window, but despite my body’s protests I ...
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Sky burial in Litang
Jonathan Monk experienced first-hand a Tibetan sky burial… Litang is a strange place. Situated in the south western Chinese province of Sichuan, it is reached by passing over crumbling roads, rivers and rockslides which wind through 5,000 metre high mountain passes. All of a sudden, the landscape flattens out inexorably towards the horizon. This vast ...
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A female archaeologist in Iran
Jennifer Booth describes her experiences in Iran… As I stood in the queue for passport control at Imam Khomeini airport, several things were running through my mind. I was about to enter Iran - a country, which when mentioned to people as my destination, had elicited less than positive responses: “Why on earth would you ...
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San Pedro Penitentiary
Prison and cocaine in Bolivia: Leila Molana-Allen follows in the footsteps of Rusty Young and Thomas McFadden. This article is from the Wanderer archive (2008); the prison has since closed its doors to travellers. Backpacking in Bolivia this summer, I did something I had never imagined I would do ...
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An interview with Dan Tyler, advocacy advisor for IRC
Sophie Harris and Laetitia Cooke talk to Dan Tyler, Advocacy advisor for the International Rescue Committee The young woman in this photograph, Koffy Afa, is pregnant and has been abandoned by her boyfriend. Perhaps her feelings of rejection and loneliness are something that most of us can relate to. However, her situation is far more ...
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Mining on the outskirts of Potosi
Before the Chilean Miners made headlines, Toby Harris got to know some Bolivians in Potosi… 3.32am – Stranded and dying on the night of the “earth mother” “Julio, I need bed. I´m not a Bolivian miner, I can´t breathe here. I´m so tired and I can´t breathe. We go? We go?” The swirl and song ...
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Lake Baikal
‘The point of Baikal is that it is strange, alien, beautiful’ Eithne Bradley writes about her visit to lake Baikal in the heart of Siberia The pain was intense. I couldn‘t feel my feet, my arms were burning with cold, and as I looked down, I realised with a horrible swirl of vertigo that I ...
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El Dorado: A Portrait of the American South
Olivia Williams takes a trip down South… Walking through Harvard Yard a couple of summers ago, a good-looking boy complimented me on my Sonic Youth T-shirt. His name was Ben and he was from Arkansas. Skipping forward several months, I was finishing off my gap year escapades back in North America. I hadn‘t seen Ben ...