- The Mekong Revisited
- The Trouble with Water
- Conversation Blues
- Footloose Forever

This issue features the Mekong revisited, a really, really, really long walk, when the death race comes to town, plus the innovation in water filtration technology for underdeveloped communities.

DEPARTMENTS

07_TRIPPING
Muay Thai’s new movie idol, Guatemala’s Festival of San Martin, Biodiversity Hotspots, Tofo Beach

16_TRAJECTORY
FOOTLOOSE FOREVER
Has the modern adventurer’s footwear come that far from the iceman’s shoe?

18_OFF-THE-GRID
THE TROUBLE WIH WATER
Innovations in water filtration technology for underdeveloped communities filter down to backcountry purification systems.

20_SOFT MACHINE
HOW SAFE IS THAT FOOD IN THE WINDOW?
Ah, the joys of food on the road. Uh, the pain of food on the road.

23_NOTES FROM FAR AFIELD
CONVERSATION BLUES
A study of the elusive fossa in Madagascar reveals the challenges facing the world’s biodiversity hotspots.

66_WRIGHT OF WAY
OF GREAT FLOODS AND NOMADIC SING-ALONGS
From Ulan Bator to the mighty steppes, Ian Wright loses his culture in Mongolia
FEATURES

26_THE MEKONG REVISITED
Five years ago it wasn’t possible to use the Mekong to cross from Cambodia into Laos. Tracing the route French adventurers took 130 years ago, we steal into what was once Asia’s heart of darkness.
Story and photos by Michael Buckley

36_A REALLY, REALLY, REALLY LONG WALK
Traversing Iceland. 870 kilometres and no trail. Fields of scorpion lava. Europe’s largest glacier. Mountains, moors, black sand deserts, deep canyons and countless rivers. It all adds up to one very long walk.
Story and photos by Bruce Kirkby

45_WHEN THE DEATH RACE COMES TO TOWN
Nestled in the Rockies, Grande Cache, Alberta, has shrugged off its boom-to-bust doldrums by staging what is fast becoming Canada’s most notorious foot race. A portrait of a town, and the race that promises to alter its future.
Story and photos by Daniel LaCoste and Lorne Bridgman
CULTURE/RESOURCES

53_IMPROVISATIONS IN WAX + YARN
Canadian artist Marina Dempster has connected with her Mexican roots by exploring the indigenous Huichol art of yarn painting

55_MUSIC + BOOKS
The East-West fusion of Susheela Raman, dj Cheb i Sabbah’s polyglot mix and more.

58_BACKPACKERZ BUZZ
Travel news and updates from Hostelling International Alberta and British Columbia.