Nearly 600 volunteers from all over Europe posed naked on Switzerland’s shrinking Aletsch glacier in 2007 for US photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.

PS: The environmental group Greenpeace, which organised the shoot, said the aim was to “establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body”. Switzerland has about 1800 glaciers and almost all of them are losing ground. Wake up yourself, and do your part to wake up the rest of humanity.

One adventure leads to another. In 2003 husband and wife team Karsten Heuer (wildlife biologist) and Leanne Allison (environmentalist) spent their five-month honeymoon  migrating with a herd of 120,000 caribou because the calving grounds are threatened by major oil and gas development. The result of this adventure is a documentary Being Caribou. In 2007, after an invitation from Farley Mowat of one of Canada’s most famous writers, they decided to retrace the iconic writer’s literary footsteps from Owls in the Family to People of the Deer. Rather than fly or drive the thousands of kilometers to see this ageing Canadian icon, Leanne Allison, Karsten Heuer and their two-and-a-half-year-old toddler, Zev, paddled, walked and sailed across the prairies, barrenlands and Maritimes, stringing together the settings of many of Mowat’s stories, along the way. Looking forward to watching it.

PS: It is really good to know that adventures are still possible for parents of young children.

The Wildest Dream tells the passionate story of Englishman George Mallory who was torn between his love for a woman, Ruth, and his obsession with the last great adventure left to man: becoming the first person to climb Mount Everest. All his life he enjoyed taking risks, or perhaps it would be fairer to say doing things with a small margin of safety: