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Issue 38 | March/April 2004

Issue 38 | March/April 2004

- Symbols of Infinity
- A Rough Guide To Toronto
- A Photographic Life In The Making
- Moon Walk

This issue features a gallery of winners in the second annual OUTPOST photo challenge - the world through your eyes, Race of the Demons: Sleep When You Dare, Revolution Radio, He’s Not Drunk, He’s Hypothermic, and more.

FEATURES

24_MOON WALK
The famed desert landscape of Chile’s Atacama attracts stargazers, trekkers, geologists and an unending assortment of weirdos encamped in the barren wilds of the world’s driest place.
STORY: EDWARD WILKINSON-LATHAM, PHOTOS: MARINA DEMPSTER

32_SYMBOLS OF INFINITY
You know the stereotypes of the North: the misfits, the people who like being isolated, the hardy ones. The inhospitable landscape. But a summer meander around NWT’s Great Slave Lake reveals an immense landscape, haunted by myths, and brimming with inexplicable natural wonders.
STORY + PHOTOS: ANIK SEE

45_PICTURING THE PLANET
A gallery of winners in the second annual OUTPOST photo challenge - the world through your eyes.

DEPARTMENTS

07_TRIPPING
Canoe carver turned forest conservation activist Joseph Martin, Arctic ingenuity and pop Anthropology goes for the money.

16_OFF-THE-GRID
REVOLUTION RADIO
With the invention of the Freeplay wind-up radio, a British inventor proved a little elbow grease can change the world.

19_NOTES FROM FAR AFIELD
A PHOTOGRAPHIC LIFE IN THE MAKING.
How a couple of amateur photogs abandoned the corporate world to create one of the most lavish photography book ever produced.

22_SOFT MACHINE
HE’S NOT DRUNK, HE’S HYPOTHERMIC!
It’s not the cold, it’s the… okay it is the cold, but it’s also the wet and the windy.

41_GOIN’ HARD
RACE OF THE DEMONS: SLEEP WHEN YOU DARE
Many of the world’s leading Type A personalities were in for a shock at this year’s Southern Traverse in New Zealand.

66_WRIGHT OF WAY
A ROUGH GIUDE TO TORONTO
In which our quick-witted, world-weary traveller has the courage to spend three weeks in Toronto - in December.

CULTURE/RESOURCES

54_LHASA’S ROAD
The romantic nomad returns from a stint in the circus with another breathtaking album, The Living Road.

57_MUSIC + BOOK REVIEWS
Music picks to warm your cockles through the winter months.

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