Elevating human creativity and purpose through adventure.
A journal of outdoor and nature writing, photography, analogue counterculture, literature and art. Presented by Alex Roddie.
Hello and welcome to the personal newsletter of Alex Roddie, a professional writer, editor and photographer from sunny Scotland. Alpenglow Journal is an attempt to trace the connections between many things – not just the great outdoors but also tech, philosophy, environment, futurism, and both written and visual arts.
The modern world – the machine – seeks to atomise and control us. How can the embodied craft of adventure make us whole and free again?
What we believe in:
A more intentional life through quieter adventure. Slow, positive, real; analogue and a bit digital, or digital and a bit analogue, you decide. Writing with a pen, photography on film, nature, art, stories, poetry, people. Real life, not FOMO. Unmediated and embodied experience. Creativity and culture, not clicks and consumerism.
Questions we seek to explore:
How can we truly know ourselves and understand our place in the natural world?
How can we disconnect, seek silence and wonder?
At the same time, how can we strive to see places, people and things as they truly are, not as the voracious machine of capitalism would have us see them?
Community and conversation are essential parts of all this. So how do we find that community, share our perspectives, without losing ourselves?
How can we use adventure to retain our humanity in a technological and economic environment that wants to strip it from us?
Is it still possible to make a living in this industry while staying true to the principles Alpenglow Journal hopes to promote?
In an increasingly digital and automated world, Alpenglow Journal aims to provide a conversation space for how we communicate the human meaning of adventure. And – here’s the important bit – whether we can do better.
This is an ad-free, AI-free, anti-algorithm publication.
