Wilderness beginnings

October 2021

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Founding publisher David Hall with the first issues of Wilderness
Wilderness’s founder, David Hall, recalls the story behind the magazine’s formation. The majority of current readers were still in nappies when the first issue of Wilderness came rumbling off the printing press in October 1991. It was an A3-sized newsprint bi-monthly and, when it was first discussed, no one imagined Wilderness would still be going […]

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