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Photo Essay • BASE editorial team • Mar 18, 2024

Hunting happiness through adventure in Taiwan

BASE teams up with adventurer Sofia Jin to explore the best of Taiwan's underrated adventure scene.

Photo Essay • Jethro Kiernan • Jan 15, 2024

St Helena: the land fleck a world apart

Impressions of an overlooked outpost in the South Atlantic brimming with potential

Photo Essay • Christian Burling • Feb 14, 2022

Splendid Isolation

A photographic love-letter to the region of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan

Photo Essay • Joseph Dodkins • Jul 15, 2021

Chasing Light

Capturing the Peak District's fleeting moments between night and day

If you’re after the remote and unknown that’s not so far away, the Tatra Mountains of southern Poland have a huge amount to offer. Here, Wojtek Radzik sticks a deadpoint move on the crux pitch of Metallica (IX/IX+) a stunning granite multi-pitch line in the Polish Tatras.

Photo Essay • Lena Drapella • Jun 22, 2021

Big Climbs Small Trips

World-class rock closer to home

Photo Essay • Jethro Kiernan • Jan 20, 2021

Has Winter in Snowdonia Ever Looked This Good?

At the turn of the year snow conditions in North Wales were about as good as they get.

Two ridges highlighted by the falling sun, above Stok village, north Zanskar.

Photo Essay • David Pickford • Dec 08, 2020

The Jade Star Kingdom

A photo essay from Zanskar & Rupshu, the mountains of wind and fire