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One of us is going through a bad situation. After we’d raked through the hows and whens and whys, I asked what she was going to do now. “I want to walk. I just want to walk myself through it.”

Prose writer Lily and her friends embark on an eventful and at times, emotional three-day journey through southeast Scotland. On the way, they encounter a myriad of people, places and stories. Lily documents these through a series of podcasts, photography and writing.

We sent risograph artists out to walk Slow Ways because why not?

Three school friends rekindle their sense of adventure, seeking freedom beyond work, family and menopause, on foot through the West Midlands

Songwriter Janie Mitchell walks from Chester to Hereford through one of the wettest months ever recorded, and records her own song for the hidden histories and ever-present water

The Ramblers' Head of Paths, Jack Cornish, tracks the generations making and remaking their landscape on foot and horseback

"I am allowed to take up and reclaim space" says illustrator Somang Lee. In the wake of the pandemic's anti-Asian hate crime, she has reclaimed space through outdoor adventures, and healing through returning to her roots

Ioana Biris of Nature Desks argues that it's time to follow in Amsterdam's footsteps and work outside for the UK's first Outdoor Office Day