Part 3: Join me as I chase two aeronauts across Europe in their quest to champion the skies and build the world's largest hydrogen balloon!
 
Visual augmentation: an animated track of the race can be found here. (We are the red team, Swiss 2 ). And photos from launch field and […]

Part 2: In this episode, come on a balloon flight with some wacky Swiss balloonists and me! Visual accompaniment for this episode can be found in an article I wrote for Atlas Obscura, on the Instagram page of Balloonist Laurent Sciboz, and in the print journal Lodestars Anthology, Switzerland. 

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This week three years ago, I was flying balloons across France. Follow the next three episodes of Telling to hear the story!

Part 1: A young boy in Switzerland discovers an adventure story so large that it alters the course of his life. Follow his journey from the stacks of a small library into the […]

We go once more to Spain to scale la Montaña de Monserrat with a shadowy and mysterious warden named Harri. As usual, there's drama in the rear-view mirror, trouble on the horizon, and a goat. 

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Armchair travellers! In this month's episode of "Telling", we go to Spain to herd baby goats…

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This month…just in time for Halloween… the darkest ghost story I’ve ever written. Inspired by these versus from Pablo Neruda’s poem "October Fullness".  

A Borrowing of Bones

“Nobody keeps any of what he has, 

and life is only a borrowing of bones.”  

NERUDA, “Pleno octubre” 

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