Graeme Gourlay

Snow bound

Dec 23, 2015

Published in Mountains

Lake Bohinj is the largest permanent lake in Slovenia

Travelling in the tiny and relatively new nation of Slovenia, Graeme Gourlay finds it impossible not to notice the connection its residents have with their landscape

Isonzo: a brutal First World War front

Apr 17, 2015

Published in Mountains

Austrian mountain troops climbing over mountain pass to surprise an Italian detachment in 1915

The Isonzo Front, Slovenia, was one of the First World War’s most brutal campaigns. Today stretches of fortifications have been carefully restored and a ‘Walk of Peace’ has been created threading through the truly beautiful Slovenian landscape linking sites of unimaginable horror

Geographical goes digital

Mar 19, 2015

Published in Geographical Apps

Mobile friendly • Back issue archive • Searchable across issues • Extra photo galleries • Embedded podcasts and videos

Report exposes bogus orphanages in Nepal

Dec 12, 2014

Published in Development

Children rescued from an orphanage in November 2013. Nineteen had been forced to sleep in one room. There was no running water and little food

As many as two thirds of the 15,000 children kept in ‘orphanages’ in Nepal are not, in fact, orphans, with the criminals who run the establishments duping naive Western volunteers into providing funding

Global corruption league table

Dec 03, 2014

Published in Geopolitics

Transparency International releases a global survey of corruption

Young Geographer 2014

Nov 28, 2014

Published in RGS–IBG News

Winners of Young Geographer 2014 with Nick Crane

Writer and broadcaster Nick Crane presents awards to the Young Geographers of 2014

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