Enamul Hoque
PHOTOSTORY: THE FABRIC OF TIME
Photographer Enamul Hoque explores jamdani muslins from Bengal – simple, plain-weave cotton fabrics with equal warp and weft – explaining their rich history and global popularity
Pablo Tosco/Intermon Oxfam
DOSSIER: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Hundreds of thousands are fleeing war and poverty. Yet as Mark Rowe reports, no country wants them, prompting concerns that obligations to help refugees are being eroded
Melody Kemp
POPULATION: OLD BONES
An ageing population is becoming a growing issue for many countries throughout Asia. In Laos, Melody Kemp discovers the harsh realities facing the rural poor and old struggling in villages ‘without laughter’
Fabio Berni
EDWARD WHYMPER – FROM DISASTER TO PROSPERITY
Anthony Lambert recounts Victorian mountaineer Edward Whymper’s fatal first ascent of the Matterhorn, 150 years ago this month, and how it gave tourism in the area a dramatic stimulus
Mick Conefrey
TRAVEL: SCRAMBLES IN THE ANDES
Mick Conefrey traces Edward Whymper’s tracks around the Andes, and finds that there’s a thriving mountaineering culture in Ecuador
Frank Leavesley
In science, sometimes you need to get out of the lab. For the 2014 Land Rover bursary recipient, Mark Allan, this meant a technologically-assisted trip to the Alps, complete with drone cameras and a hair-raising helicopter ride
