Archive - Alpenglow Journal

Unplugged #19: Thinking long-term, an upgraded film scanner, fear and finding out, and a phoenix rises from the ashes

Where is this thing going?

Aug 8 •

July 2025

Alpenglow inspirations: iPhone photography in the Alps

Making the best of a flawed – but valid – photographic tool

Jul 29 •

Unplugged #18: A doomed landscape, the pleasure of creation, against compression, and getting back your time

Drawing together the threads for a larger audience this week

Jul 18 •

Experiments in deconvergence: it starts with a wristwatch and notepad

Simple first steps towards radically changing your life. Less time looking down, more time looking up.

Jul 4 •

June 2025

Unplugged #17: Anti-conquest mountaineering, drones on Everest, end of an era in Glen Coe, and the edit is the adventure

I don’t identify with having a fear of heights, but tackling some issues has helped me on the rock… and it doesn’t have to be about ‘conquering…

Jun 26 •

Experiments in deconvergence: Is the cyborg mountaineer still an artist?

More than a century ago, George Mallory wrote that adventure qualifies as art. Is that still true today?

Jun 19 •

Unplugged #16: Revealing the elemental, the future is trust, a walk without a camera, and failures of imagination

‘Elbow grease is out. Handprints are in.’

Jun 12 •

Closer to the true heart of things

At a remote bothy deep in the Scottish Highlands, I meet a remarkable character on a lifelong quest – perhaps someone everyone in the world of adventure…

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Unplugged #15: A year on Substack, rehabilitating our relationship with adventure, and dances with editors

I've been thinking about rehabilitating our relationship with adventure lately, and I'm glad to see others writing about it.

May 27 •

Keeping the spirit of adventure alive forever: creating a new print magazine, film photography in 2025, and trading control for meaning

The Revelry Collection interview: 'If you can get enough subscribers, you can have a good business with this kind of magazine.'

May 13 •

Unplugged #14: Craft and integrity, a fullness of presence, the call of the goldfinch, and maker’s knowledge

I got into an online debate with a pro-AI evangelist, and I don’t think I completely disgraced myself…

May 6 •

April 2025

Building Alpenglow Journal: going all-in on Substack

I'm no Substack evangelist, but sometimes you've just got to go where the readers are.

Apr 29 •

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