At mile 8,250 of his journey across the globe in the steps of our forebearers, Nat Geo Explorer and Out of Eden Walk’s Paul Salopek has reached another milestone. This time, he’s at Sword Gate Pass in China’s Sichuan Province, where he meets a couple of locals. “I don’t care where we go,” one local, Huang Yurong, admits. “The air is nice here. It’s nice nature. It’s good to get away from ordinary life.” Take a walk in Salopek’s shoes as he admires the wonders of this former military passage: htt
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At mile 8,250 of his journey across the globe in the steps of our forebearers, Nat Geo Explorer and Out of Eden Walk’s Paul Salopek has reached another milestone. This time, he’s at Sword Gate Pass in China’s Sichuan Province, where he meets a couple of locals. “I don’t care where we go,” one local, Huang Yurong, admits. “The air is nice here. It’s nice nature. It’s good to get away from ordinary life.” Take a walk in Salopek’s shoes as he admires the wonders of this former military passage: htt
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After more than a decade of storytelling, #NatGeoExplorer Paul Salopek set foot in North America as part of the Out of Eden Walk, his walking odyssey to retrace human migration out of Africa. "Stepping into the Americas represents the closing of a circle,” Salopek shares. “I started the walk more than 12 years ago on the African continent, which had been my home for nearly a decade as a foreign correspondent. Now, I'll be entering horizons of even deeper memory — walking the landscapes of my bir
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After more than a decade of storytelling, #NatGeoExplorer Paul Salopek set foot in North America as part of the Out of Eden Walk, his walking odyssey to retrace human migration out of Africa. "Stepping into the Americas represents the closing of a circle,” Salopek shares. “I started the walk more than 12 years ago on the African continent, which had been my home for nearly a decade as a foreign correspondent. Now, I'll be entering horizons of even deeper memory — walking the landscapes of my bir
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"Every single day of my walk, my real destination is people." —Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek A new Out of Eden Walk short film shares scenes from the first 1,000 miles of Salopek’s trek through China, as he journeys across the globe in the footsteps of our ancestors. Watch as he shares lessons learned along the way. Also available with Mandarin subtitles: https://vimeo.com/732978734 | National Geographic Society
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"Every single day of my walk, my real destination is people." —Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek A new Out of Eden Walk short film shares scenes from the first 1,000 miles of Salopek’s trek through China, as he journeys across the globe in the footsteps of our ancestors. Watch as he shares lessons learned along the way. Also available with Mandarin subtitles: https://vimeo.com/732978734 | National Geographic Society
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Today is the 9th anniversary of the Out of Eden Walk! In 2013, storyteller and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek set out on a 24-000-mile odyssey to retrace our ancestors’ global migration on foot. Here’s a glimpse of his walking journey in 30 seconds. https://on.natgeo.com/3FdPQ6B | National Geographic
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Today is the 9th anniversary of the Out of Eden Walk! In 2013, storyteller and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek set out on a 24-000-mile odyssey to retrace our ancestors’ global migration on foot. Here’s a glimpse of his walking journey in 30 seconds. https://on.natgeo.com/3FdPQ6B | National Geographic
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✍️ A message from Paul: “Almost thirteen years ago, I set out on foot from the Rift Valley of Ethiopia, one of the cradles of humankind, to begin retracing perhaps the greatest journey ever undertaken by our species: the first exploration of the world by our Stone Age ancestors. Now, after all these years and miles, the Out of Eden Walk project has, at last, arrived in the Americas, and I can think of no better place to start this final phase of my global trail than in Shishmaref, Alaska, a frie
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✍️ A message from Paul: “Almost thirteen years ago, I set out on foot from the Rift Valley of Ethiopia, one of the cradles of humankind, to begin retracing perhaps the greatest journey ever undertaken by our species: the first exploration of the world by our Stone Age ancestors. Now, after all these years and miles, the Out of Eden Walk project has, at last, arrived in the Americas, and I can think of no better place to start this final phase of my global trail than in Shishmaref, Alaska, a frie
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What would it be like to walk across the world? Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek has been on a 13,000 mile foot journey over the last 10 years, in the footsteps of our ancestors. And he has another 12,000 miles to go. Video by John Stanmeyer Read more about the Out of Eden Walk: https://on.natgeo.com/44PgorK | National Geographic Travel
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What would it be like to walk across the world? Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek has been on a 13,000 mile foot journey over the last 10 years, in the footsteps of our ancestors. And he has another 12,000 miles to go. Video by John Stanmeyer Read more about the Out of Eden Walk: https://on.natgeo.com/44PgorK | National Geographic Travel
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The Out of Eden Walk: Welcome to the journey of human kind
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The Out of Eden Walk: Welcome to the journey of human kind
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Explorer Classroom | Out of Eden Walk with Paul Salopek
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In the latest Out of Eden Walk dispatch, Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek pays homage to the handmade good makers of China’s rural Yunnan mountainsides. “This is 21st century China: a clichéd panorama of hyperactive megacities, punctual bullet trains, over-lit malls, and hi-tech ports—the famed ‘factory of the world.’ [...] Yet in the scarps and valleys of western Yunnan Province, bordering Myanmar and Tibet, a startlingly different Middle Kingdom abides: a stronghold of manual, artisanal trades. A
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Explorer Classroom | Out of Eden Walk: Updates from China with Paul Salopek
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Journalist Paul Salopek: Out of Eden
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Video by Out of Eden Walk’s Paul Salopek: “We are walking to Muli. What is Muli? The question is tricky. In simplest terms, Muli is a latitude and longitude: an obscure waypoint on the Silk Roads that once unspooled, like chalky strings, across the river chasms and wind-stripped passes of Sichuan, in far southwestern China.” See more of his journey in the latest dispatch, Looking for Muli, from his 24,000-mile storytelling odyssey across the globe. http://on.natgeo.org/6189zRFYF | National Geogr
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Two years ago, Paul Salopek and team crossed the Pamir mountains of Central Asia on foot. This video remembers the snowy crossing, plus a celebratory afterparty. | Out of Eden Walk
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Nat Geo Explorer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek is walking across the globe in the footsteps of our ancestors. Over the past two and a half years, he has journeyed across China as part of the 38,000-kilometer Out of Eden Walk. A new storytelling map, created in collaboration with Esri and Harvard’s Center for Geographical Analysis, reveals a China “few outsiders ever see.” Join the historic trek through the heartland of the Middle Kingdom — one footstep (and dynasty) at a tim
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👣 Every hundred miles, Paul pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. On day 3,995 of the Walk, at Milestone 94 in Li Jia Tun, Liaoning, China, Paul and his Walking Partners Wang Jiawei and Pan Jun stopped on a cold, lonely road and met a woman out strolling in her village in subzero weather, clad only in a light sweatshirt. Who are you? I’m a farmer. Where are you from? I’m from this village. Where are you going? Home. I just went out to b
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10 years. 13,000 miles. Hundreds of Walking Partners. Countless stories. Today is the 10th anniversary of the Out of Eden Walk. While the nature of foot travel is unpredictable—one of the many joys of a world rediscovered on foot—the power of this community of readers, viewers, listeners, and fellow walkers has been constant. Thank you for walking with us. 👣 Caption by Julia Payne. Photos by Paul Salopek. Video compilation by Erin Williams. Music: Into the Clouds composed by DPmusic. Used with
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Out of Eden: The Walk
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Out of Eden Walk: An Introduction for Educators
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Today, on the 12th anniversary of the Out of Eden Walk, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek is more than halfway through his 38,000-kilometer (24,000-mile) trek, retracing the path of Homo sapiens' first migration from Africa. Over the course of the journey, he is weaving a global mosaic of stories and building a community that connects people across borders. Salopek is not just walking the earth — he’s listening, learning, and chronicling the human experience. Ch
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“Dawn. Water. A mechanical hum. A corridor leading from desolation to emptiness.” —Paul Salopek Every hundred miles, Paul pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets. 🌊 Milestone 98 was recorded aboard the M.V. Cosco on the Yellow Sea on day 4,164 of the Out of Eden Walk. 🔗 Explore Milestone 98 in full: https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/milestones/2024-09-milestone-98-water#introduction Video by Paul Salopek. Video description in comments. | Out of Eden Walk
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Out of Eden Walk: Paul Salopek on Trekking Through Yunnan
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The Out of Eden Walk has completed 7 years of storytelling and education programs—and half the world still lies before us. Now we invite new organizations to participate in the journey. Join us here: https://outofedenwalknonprofit.org/thecoalition/ | Out of Eden Walk
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🎙️🔈 “So for about 250 years, until the last dynasty finished in China, there was a stream of, imagine these high kinds of eastern outliers of the Himalaya mountains, and they’re a stream of porters going back and forth over a stretch of almost, I don’t know, about 200 km. That would be like 130 miles up mountain passes, down into canyons … all of them staggering in one direction towards Tibet, carrying, kind of, cheap black tea from Sichuan into Tibet. And these porters were amazing athletes,
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👣 After 12 years of walking steadily towards sunrise out of Africa, Out of Eden Walk is poised to step out of Asia, steam across the North Pacific by cargo ship, and set off on its final, slow pivot south to our immensely long journey’s finish line—the tip of South of America. As ever, our nonprofit organization needs your muscle to help us complete this next stage of our storytelling trek. For the next 30 days, we invite you to join us with a donation at any level to support our annual crowdfu
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The #EdenWalk is kicking off again! 🚶🏽🚶🏾‍♀️🚶‍♀️ After a long hiatus imposed by the pandemic, Paul Salopek and walking partners are lacing up their boots to walk 6,000 km across ten provinces of China. Paul was recently in Shanghai to prep. Here he gives a preview of the route. | Out of Eden Walk
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