Travel: How a trip to Dharali changed my life For many months, the following words of Zen Master Eihei Dogen had been reverberating intermittently in my ears: ‘From time immemorial, the mountains have been the dwelling place of all the great sages. Wise ones and sages have all made the mountains their own chambers, their own body and mind, and through these wise ones and sages, the mountains have been […]

Against her better judgment, Chris Gitelson follows her childhood friend, Aileen Sesso, onto the glass floor of the Glacier Skywalk and sits down. They’re 280 metres above the Sunwapta Valley, a canyon with the Sunwapta River running through it, on opening day for the skywalk, a controversial development in Jasper National Park. I can’t stay here. I can’t. I can’t believe I’m sitting out here “I love it,” said Ms. […]