Our mission

Lands Untold is a digital media platform driven by a simple mission: to deepen our connection to the natural world and inspire more time outdoors.

Why? Because nature heals. Time spent outside improves our physical and mental health, adds clarity to our minds, and enriches our lives in ways few other things can.

Where Stories Bring Us Back Outside

Today, Lands Untold produces informative web features, online hiking guides and itineraries, and short documentary-style films focused on the outdoors. The platform is led by its founder and a small team of independent creatives who share a belief in the power of place, story, and time spent outside.

Our values

Movement

We're made to move. An active lifestyle is good for your physical, mental and spiritual health.

Natural Living

Most of us can't live in nature, but we can find ways of living more naturally. 

Accessibility

The great outdoors are for everyone. No matter who you are, outdoor spaces and wild places are gifts that should be accessible to all.

Embrace Discomfort

Embracing discomfort fosters growth. Difficult hikes build mental resilience and foster a deeper appreciation for nature's beauty and our own capabilities.
The more we are removed from nature, the more we are denied our birthright to play in forests, climb mountains, follow streams, and fall in love with meadows, to become creative, self-actualized, deeply intuitive.
Kim Heacox

Our team

Kolya

Founder & lead web desiger

sebastian

contributer

Francie

Gear specialist

Sasha

Editor

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Our World

Digitally connected, but physically detached.

Chances are, you’re reading this while slumped over at your desk or lying in a darker-than-day, climate-controlled room.

Your phone’s artificial glow is too bright for your eyes but not bright enough to compete with the cobalt skies that energize the world beyond your walls.

We’re nature deficient — the further we stray from nature’s rhythms, the sicker we become.  

We need the soft glow of fire, the sweet smell of pine and the feeling of grass between our toes. 

We need to reconnect.

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