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History & Culture

The cartographic king

After almost four decades of creating beautiful, exquisitely detailed maps for Australian Geographic, Will Pringle has put down his professional cartographic tools for the last time.

History & Culture

The hardest night

The first Australian ascent of Mt Everest in 1984 is one of the great feats of mountaineering. Climbed by a small team semi-alpine style, with no bottled oxygen, via the Great (Norton) Couloir, it remains unrepeated 40 years later.

History & Culture

Awakening a sleeping language

Thomas Watson was devastated when he discovered his traditional language, Gangulu, was no longer spoken, but his grief gave way to searching, a process that led thousands of kilometres around the world to an attic in Sweden.