Think of a scientist and a lab-coat-wearing bod staring at a petri dish tends to spring to mind. Dr Mike Gil is a living reminder that being a scientist can also involve adventuring in some of the earth’s most remarkable and remote spots – amid some of its most astonishing creatures. Mike, 34, you see, … Read more
Every weekend and holiday, Cameron Newham is out from dawn to dusk, in rain, sun, hail and biting winds, fulfilling his quest to photograph all 12,000 of England’s rural parish churches. Always working alone — ‘other people tend to get rather bored’ — he takes pictures of, well, pretty much everything. A nice view from … Read more
A voice behind me says: ‘Just step off.’ Fair enough — but I’m standing on the edge of a platform, 65 ft above Utah’s Olympic Park. The past hour has been spent swinging, swaying and sweating my way around the Summer Canyon Course, a vertiginous circuit of rope, metal and wooden obstacles, designed to test … Read more