Henry Wismayer

2 months ago | courrierinternational.com | Henry Wismayer

Dans la pénombre de l’antichambre de la chapelle, le prêtre me colle dans la main un livre lu et relu. Il s’agit d’une biographie abrégée de Charles de Foucauld, l’ermite chrétien qui a fondé cet avant-poste il y a plus de cent ans. Un passage attire mon attention, celui où il explique pourquoi il a choisi de le construire ici, sur un escarpement élevé, au cœur du désert le plus chaud du monde. “D’ici la vue est plus belle qu’on ne peut le dire ou l’imaginer.

Jan 23, 2025 | noemamag.com | Henry Wismayer

Credits Henry Wismayer is a writer based in London. On a tawny hillside in central Tuscany, in a compound just 20 miles west of Siena’s medieval piazzas, Francesco Cannata was drilling for energy. Looming behind him was a red and white derrick, 80 feet tall, surrounded by trucks and heavy machinery. For three months, Cannata and his team had been at work sinking a diamond drill bit through the carbonates and dolomites of the Tuscan continental crust.

Jan 16, 2025 | the-fence.com | Henry Wismayer

A celebration of an establishment in deepest south London with a tricksy landlord and a never-changing clientele. An ode, then, to the beauty of the mediocre pub. One morning last month, after dropping my kids at school, I bumped into the local publican in the corner shop. He looked pallid and put-upon, which wasn’t unusual, though he said hello with his usual Geordie bounce, and headed straight for the beer fridge. It was 9am.

Jun 6, 2024 | noemamag.com | Henry Wismayer

Credits Henry Wismayer is a writer based in London. At 12.50 p.m. on June 8, 1924, high on the Tibetan flank of Mount Everest, Noel Odell clambered onto a small crag just as the clouds overhead dissipated. Far above, on the northeast ridge, two spidery dots were moving uphill. The lower dot, he guessed, was the greenhorn, Sandy Irvine, a first-timer to the Himalayas who had nonetheless proved himself to be indefatigable on the mountain.

May 3, 2024 | ft.com | Henry Wismayer

Beto Diniz shook his head and turned the key to silence the quad-bike engine.