It took two years to make this seven-minute, 20-terabyte time-lapse film of the Scandinavian countryside. Our review: worth every second.

Imagining Scandinavia as a toadstool-riddled glade where travellers can rest in sylvan hollows might seem like a gross stereotype. It might also be correct.

Need to drown out the noise of the world? This 10-hour-long recording of a Norwegian icebreaker doing its slow, ASMR-inducing thing should do the trick.

This vertigo-inducing pit – the largest in the world – takes more than a full hour to descend by rope. And much less time if you just fling yourself off.

Long week? This time-lapse footage of lava will help you unwind. 

Living off the grid usually means forking out for an expensive modular house and a dozen solar panels. But for this nomadic community in the Spanish mountains, the concept is a lot more basic. Photographer Ben Murphy investigates.

In a small village in China, a group of “spider-men” and women free-climb massive cave walls for medicinal herbs. Just don’t look down.

Covering a whopping 24,000 kilometres, it’s certainly not for the faint of heart (or foot). 

Meet Alf Stackhouse, the 91-year-old “king” of Tasmania’s Badger Island. 

There's a slightly odd Chinese theme park in the Egyptian desert. Photographer Klaus Thymann went to check it out.