Alpenglow Journal
Elevating human creativity and purpose through adventure.
A journal of outdoor and nature writing, photography, and analogue counterculture presented by Alex Roddie.
What we believe in:
A more intentional life through quieter adventure. Slow, positive, real; analogue and a bit digital, or digital and a bit analogue, you decide. Writing with a pen, photography on film, nature, art, stories, poetry, people. Real life, not FOMO. Unmediated and embodied experience. Creativity and culture, not clicks and consumerism.
Questions we seek to explore:
- How can we truly know ourselves and understand our place in the natural world?
- How can we disconnect, seek silence and wonder?
- At the same time, how can we strive to see places, people and things as they truly are, not as the voracious machine of capitalism would have us see them?
- Community and conversation are essential parts of all this. So how do we find that community, share our perspectives, without losing ourselves?
- How can we use adventure to retain our humanity in a technological and economic environment that wants to strip it from us?
- Is it still possible to make a living in this industry while staying true to the principles Unplugged hopes to promote?
As editor of Sidetracked and Like the Wind magazines, author of non-fiction outdoor and travel books, and widely published photographer, Alex is well positioned to ponder these questions and more.
In an increasingly digital and automated world, Unplugged aims to provide a conversation space for how we communicate the human meaning of adventure. And – here’s the important bit – whether we can do better.
Alpenglow Journal is a newsletter about outdoor and nature writing, photography, and analogue counterculture in the great outdoors. Elevating human creativity and purpose through adventure. Subscribe to Alpenglow Journal here on Substack.