We are an international ecotourism company offering hiking adventures and specialised creativity retreats. Charissa Wright recently joined the Edgewalkers Team.
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https://edgewalkers.com.au/mongolia-walking-adventure THE TEAM
Edgewalkers was founded by Dr Erika Jacobson, a theatre practitioner, artist and entrepreneur with a specialisation in creativity and transformative learning who loves writing, walking and wildflowers. Kirra Diconza, is an environmental scientist, yoga instructor, and student of Chinese medicine who loves to surf and create culinary magic. Charissa is an artist, designer and entrepreneur with background in science and agriculture. She loves wildflowers, birds and being outdoors. Behinds the scenes Francis Cubillo is our office administrator and email marketing expert, with superhuman organisational skills. WHERE WE LIKE TO BE
From August to November most of our events take place in Western Australia's florally biodiverse southwest, including the Cape to Cape track in the Margaret River Region, the Fitzgerald Biosphere and the Stirling Range National Park. We also offer a walking adventures through the ancient rugged landscape of the Murchison Gorge in the Kalbarri National Park in WA's midwest. In June and July we head to the Tavan Bogd National Park and hike with small groups through the Altai Mountains in the in northwest Mongolia and to the Prokletije National Park to hike the Peaks of the Balkans through Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo. Our international Creativity Retreat will be held on the magical island of Korcula, Croatia. We offer set events throughout the year but mostly organise bespoke adventures for individuals, organisations and government departments. Our mission is to bring people closer to nature, creativity and their most adventurous selves.
17/02/2026
Whatās on our minds?
FIRE RECOVERY!
So many of you have had the fortune of walking through the spectacular beauty of the Fitzgerald River National Park and experienced first hand the magic of its flora.
The recent fires have had a devastating impact on more than 50% of the park, including the salmon Eucalyptus woodlands that make up the Cocanarup reserve - one of THE most important breeding grounds for the Carnaby Black Cockatoos.
To protect and restore this area they need money!
Please please donate to this cause - and share wide and far.
Please give generously to fund audio recording units, trail cameras, revegetation, other surveying equipment, artificial hollows (if required post-survey), satellite tracking, specialist advice and general recovery project support after the tragic bush fire of 22nd to 24th January 2026
16/02/2026
Happy Year of the Fire Horse to everyone celebrating the lunar New Year.
Horses are so powerful and beautiful, even though theyāre strong, when you ride a horse you have to be selective about what you carry with you.
You canāt take it all.
If you want to move on a horse you have to travel light.
Hereās to leaving all thatās unwanted and unnecessary, to taking only whatās needed, what really lights us up, what really brings us joy, what really makes us feel valued and seen, what really serves us to have deep connections and purpose, whatās compassionate, kind and full@of love š„š
To our Chinese friends:ę°å¹“åæ«ä¹ !
and ęåē¼č²”!
To our Tibetan friends and students: Tashi Delek !
To our Mongolian friends: Š”Š°Š¹Ń Š°Š½ ŃŠøŠ½ŃŠ»ŃŃŃŃŠ¹
Iād never spent so much time around them as I have in Mongolia here are some captions:
1. these beautiful families galloped past us on the second year of running our Mongolian Walking Adventure in the Tavan Bogd National Park.
2. These horses in Khuton Lake were being wrangled by young nomadic kids
3. Sometimes when walkers get blisters we rent a horse for them - the grand old man in traditional Mongolian coat is the father of one of the Tuvan nomads we rent our camels and horses from
4. Every year we have two river crossings that are too deep and fast-moving to walk across, we use these beautiful horsesā¦ itās scary but they just know their way
5. First time I saw horses free like this was in Mongolia
13/02/2026
The Peaks the Balkans.
22 June - 4 July
You wonāt forget this adventure.
Are you up for this?
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30/01/2026
There are many elements that make walking through the Altai Mountains in northwest Mongolia a unique adventure. ļæ½ļæ½The remote and untamed wilderness of the Tavan Bogd National Park, the immersion over nine days in this pristine natural environment of wildflowers, wildlife and waterfalls.
Exposure to the nomadic lifestyles of modern day Kazakh and Tuvan herders - witnessing traditional cultures present in the region since the Palaeolithic age (thatās over 15,000 years). ļæ½ļæ½The mountains, white-capped peaks, giants by our sides, always impressive, and then that first glimpse of the Five Sacred Peak -Tavan Bogd - one of which is Mongoliaās highest mountain, Khuten Peak at 4,200 mts.
This photo essay describes three important components that make this adventure magic: the location, the people and the challenge.
These three elements come together every year during Edgewalkers Mongolian Walking Adventure in the Tavan Bogd National Park (TBNP) in the heart of the Altai Mountain Range.
Walking through the Altai Mountains in the TAVAN BOGD National Park in Northwest Mongolia is not for the faint-hearted. It is for the adventurous hearted, the brave-hearted, the open-hearted and the humble-hearted. It is for those that are ready to push through their limitations and step outside of comfort and familiarity to experience the wild and pristine natural beauty of remote wilderness - to experience what not many people will experience in their lives.
30/01/2026
There are many elements that make walking through the Altai Mountains in northwest Mongolia a unique adventure. āØāØThe remote and untamed wilderness of the Tavan Bogd National Park, the immersion over nine days in this pristine natural environment of wildflowers, wildlife and waterfalls.
Exposure to the nomadic lifestyles of modern day Kazakh and Tuvan herders - witnessing traditional cultures present in the region since the Palaeolithic age (thatās over 15,000 years). āØāØThe mountains, white-capped peaks, giants by our sides, always impressive, and then that first glimpse of the Five Sacred Peak -Tavan Bogd - one of which is Mongoliaās highest mountain, Khuten Peak at 4,200 mts.
This photo essay describes three important components that make this adventure magic: the location, the people and the challenge.
These three elements come together every year during Edgewalkers Mongolian Walking Adventure in the Tavan Bogd National Park (TBNP) in the heart of the Altai Mountain Range.
Walking through the Altai Mountains in the TAVAN BOGD National Park in Northwest Mongolia is not for the faint-hearted. It is for the adventurous hearted, the brave-hearted, the open-hearted and the humble-hearted. It is for those that are ready to push through their limitations and step outside of comfort and familiarity to experience the wild and pristine natural beauty of remote wilderness - to experience what not many people will experience in their lives.
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25/01/2026
If youāve been following the news from the great Southern in Western Australia, you will know that 200+ people have been fighting fires throughout the Fitzgerald River National Park.
Fire plays an important role in the regeneration of the Australian Bush.
But itās always sad to learn about devastating fires and the destruction of Bush - more than 150,000 hectares have been burnt over the last week.
I was happy to learn that the west side of the park, the areas where we go walking in every year have not been touched by the devastating fires that are still being put out as I write this.
But, feel deep sadness about the loss of thousands of animals, insects and plants.
Here are some memories from my walks in the spectacular and extraordinary national Park that forms part of our natural heritage here in Western Australia.
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EDGEWALKERS - walking you closer to nature & your most creative self
It was during a long coastal hike, along the famous Cape to Cape track, immersed in scented Boronias and Honey Myrtle, surrounded by swishing Peppermint Eucalyptuses and low lying prickly Acacias (names I did not know then) that I came to realise two things.
First, I realised that in spite of loving being out in nature I knew very little about the natural world that surrounded me. When I looked at trees I saw, well, trees; when I looked at flowers, I saw colours, red ones, purple ones, yellow ones.
I wondered if other people also felt the same. Whether they were also yearning for a more profound connection and understanding of the natural world, yearning to move like Edgewalkers, effectively across the edge between the structured and the untamed, between the sophisticated and the primal.
Second, I realised that walking, but especially in nature, was, and is, an integral part of my creative processā¦that I have been doing it for a long time.
I realised that I hiked the mountains around Almaty, Kazakhstan trying to find a way to finish the first draft of my first novel in 1999, and that I regularly traversed Kingās Park, Perth, while solving production issues with my first play Trollop(e) in 2002. I understood that I had walked my way out of every single challenge in all the theatre-based projects I created with Act Out www.actout.com.au from 2007 ā 2014 and that I am still bushwalking now as a way to solve problems, to let my mind expand and my imagination soar.
I understood, that day on the Cape to Cape with the Southern Native Roses dangling red above the limestone outcrops of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, with Western Spinebills fluttering among the Melaleuca and the Cockiesā Tongues, that walking is how I negotiate the edge between the world of what is and the world of what is yet to be; between the world of the created and what is yet to be created. I wondered whether others also felt a desire to move more freely between these two realms.
By naming my new business adventure Edgewalkers, I am conjuring the possibility of playing a role in bringing people closer to the edges they yearn to walk boldly along; closer to nature, closer to their natural creative and expressive selves; I am conjuring the possibility of all of us having intimate knowledge and competence of all the worlds we inhabit and create.
OUR RETREATS
We are educators, nature lovers, artists & walking enthusiasts who love sharing our knowledge & passion for nature & a deeply creative life. Our retreats are designed to give you focused and uninterrupted opportunities to immerse yourself in stimulating surroundings and discover/rediscover your creative aspirations...and ways to reconnect with them.
Through aesthetic and embodied activities & techniques you will explore your creative aspirations, your desires and hopes and generate ways to create a trajectory to a more creative & self-expressive life.
During the retreats the creative process is harnessed by guided walks immersed in nature through some of the most pristine and biodiverse environments in the world, including sections of the Cape to Cape track & Boranup forest in southwest Western Australia & in the Altai mountains of northwest Mongolia. In addition, special workshops with contributing local artists during each retreat will enhance your creativity experience.
OUR WALKS
When you walk with us you are not just walking with a tour guide, you are walking with a philosopher, an artist, a writer, an environmentalist who offer a unique perspective and sensitivity to the experience.
