Out of Eden Walk

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Out of Eden Walk is a 42,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. Led by Nat Geo Explorer and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek. Follow along with Paul's dispatches from the trail at www.outofedenwalk.org

Three people walk side-by-side together through an arid landscape. There is a camel walking behind them.
A person carrying a backpack stands on a shore in a mountainous area. Text overlaid on the image says, "Summer Sprint: A 7-day fundraiser to support the Out of Eden Walk nonprofit organization."
An orange raft is tied to the shoreline along a river, with snow-capped mountains and a cloudy sky in the background. Text overlaid on the photo says, “‘We take turns at the oars. I’m mostly luggage. The Alaskan wilderness glides past like a long sigh.’ — Paul Salopek, ‘River of Names.’”
Two people in a raft with mountains in the background. The sky is blue and dotted with clouds. One person is rowing. White text overlaid on the photo says, “The current sawed its million-year strokes through the Chugach Mountains. Wild shores. Scores of kilometers of cobbled bars and whitewater. The first river-borne Milestone on a global walk.”Two people in a raft with mountains in the background. The sky is blue and dotted with clouds. One person is rowing. White text overlaid on the photo says, “The current sawed its million-year strokes through the Chugach Mountains. Wild shores. Scores of kilometers of cobbled bars and whitewater. The first river-borne Milestone on a global walk.”
Three people stand outside, taking in the receding terminus of Portage Glacier, near Anchorage, Alaska.
A geologist checks on landslide monitoring equipment on a steep scarp in Alaska. There are snow covered mountains in the background. Text overlaid on the image says, "Nimble as a Dall sheep, the scientist bounds up a 900-meter scarp abutting Portage Glacier, a dazzling white tongue of ice suspended above Whittier, Alaska. ‘Pinch the rock!’ he hollers down, encouragingly. ‘Don’t fall off!’"
A photo collage featuring National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s walking partners from various countries over the years.
Two people wearing hiking gear and carrying backpacks stand near a glacier and snow-capped mountains in Alaska. They are looking away from the camera.
A person stands outside, leaning his hand on a very large Silk Road sculpture in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China.
A person carrying a backpack and camping gear walks across a beach. The sun shines in a pale blue sky. The person's long shadow trails behind him. Text overlaid on the image says, "THANK YOU. Your generosity has helped us reach our goal of $75,000 during our annual crowdfunding campaign! There's still time: The campaign is live through December 29th. Matching funds are available and every gift made now will have double the impact."
A person carrying a backpack crosses a footbridge in a hilly area. Text overlaid on the image says, “Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000 km walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors.”
A person carrying a backpack walks along a road in a village in Alaska.
Text overlaid on a landscape image of mountains says, “In 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paul Salopek set out from the Rift Valley of Ethiopia — one of cradles of humankind — to retrace, on foot, the dawn voyage of the earliest Homo sapiens who first walked out of Africa during the Stone Age.”
A person stands in an historic quarter of Varanasi, facing away from the photographer. Text overlaid on the photo says, “From National Geographic: ‘For over a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has woven a tapestry of human stories from his epic trail retracing human migration.’ Photo by Paul Salopek, Varanasi, India.”
Screen grab of BBC World Service Radio 4 live listening site.
Black text against a white background with quotation marks says, “When people say, ‘Where do you come from?’ I sometimes say just the last village or maybe the last town. And that’s kind of extraordinary enough. Walking any distance these days is kind of unusual. And that will create a certain, ‘Oh, wow, that’s far.’ And, ‘Where are you going?’ … ‘I’m going to the next village up ahead.’ I don’t often say, ‘From Ethiopia. I just walked here,’ because you can imagine that kind of question that would then open up, right?”
A vertical photo of a rainbow over a lake after a rainstorm. Birds dot the lake. The sky is gray, and there are hills in the distance. White text overlaid on the image says, “’Longing. Nostalgia. Wanting. Aching. Thirst. A walker who comes from far away becomes a safe receptacle for such inconvenient emotions. We listen without judgment. We carry your secrets away.’ —Paul Salopek, ‘Goodbye to Japan’. Pictured: A rainbow graces Lake Biwa after a rainstorm. Photo by Paul Salopek on the Out of Eden Walk.”