Out of Eden Walk
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National Geographic Explorer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @PaulSalopek is walking 24,000 miles across the globe in the footsteps of our ancestors.
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步行前往中国东北偏远地区的一个古老的陨石坑。一名当地男子收集其碎片来制作珠宝。 An Out of Eden Walk dispatch from #China translated into Chinese by Nat Geo-China. ngchina.com.cn/news/detail?ne…
#NatGeoExplorer Paul Salopek tells Host @CarolynBeeler about his Out of Eden Walk in Myanmar, where he witnessed the Feb. 1, 2021 coup that triggered the civil war still being fought there. #EdenWalk bit.ly/4dBNG2u
In China's southern province of Yunnan, a community known as the Bai expresses itself mostly by singing. #NatGeoExplorer Paul Salopek talks about his time with the Bai community and an early 20th century botanist and explorer who traveled the same region. bit.ly/3Zh0xmE
A mountain village where residents SING their feelings; and remembering iconic explorer #JosephRock Into western China with Paul Salopek and The World's Marco Werman 7-minute listen theworld.org/stories/2024/0…
Milestone 96: leaving Yantai, #China by ship. In the 1920s the port, called Chefoo, hosted US sailors. One wrote a poem to a girlfriend: It was many a year ago In Chefoo by the sea That a waitress there was whom you may know By the name of Anna Foo Li… outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/milestones/202…
✍️ “When you set out to trek across the world, one of the very first things you learn about such a global walk of a lifetime is that it contains many other, if shorter, walks of a lifetime.” —Paul Salopek Read “Goodbye to China” here: outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-… #EdenWalk #China
🎙️ “Mr. Li, when he sings, he would spread his feet wide. He’d throw out his chest, hold his hands down by his hips like a gunslinger, and just extrude this extraordinary human sound that had this enormous range. It really is an amazing thing to see and listen to.” —Paul Salopek
“China contributed the largest contingent of walking partners to this slow, collective ramble among the human family at the turn of the 21st century: 25 companion storytellers vastly enriched my Chinese trails.” —Paul Salopek Read “Goodbye to China” here: outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-…
In China's southern province of Yunnan, a community known as the Bai expresses itself mostly by singing. #NatGeoExplorer Paul Salopek talks about his time with the Bai community and an early 20th century botanist and explorer who traveled the same region. bit.ly/3Zh0xmE
“We have come so far. And we have so long yet to march. And my heart turns over. And I can feel it already, as I begin my descent to the old capital that Marco Polo called Cambaluc. I will miss China.” — Paul Salopek ✍️ nationalgeographic.com/history/articl… Photo by JohnStanmeyer / National Geographic
Photographer Matthieu Chazal walked with me from Turkey into Georgia. His astonishing vision, focused on people living their days in places embattled by change, hums with fierce but quiet mystery. His exhibition ‘Levant’ is opening in Paris on Thursday: galerie-taylor.fr/reportage-par-…
“It’s one of the most physically beautiful landscapes I’ve walked through on this long walking project: [peaks] covered by snow, the color of lavender in the distance. Spruce & pine forests . . . bursting with mushrooms & wildflowers & big rivers the color of jade.” —Paul Salopek
The ferry between #China & #SouthKorea was a ghost ship. Hundreds of cabins but only dozens of passengers. The shipboard rules were simple: ‘Please do not wear underwear & pajamas in public areas to maintain a civilized environment in public places.’ outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/milestones/202…
Neil King (Neil King) set off in 2021, after a cancer diagnosis, to walk from DC to NYC. He rediscovered a complicated America en route, wrote a hopeful, lovely book, & embarked last week on the final solo trek that awaits us all. Walk in peace, friend. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…
A family rests in the shade of a Khejri tree while the summer sun shines high in the sky at mid day. Image taken in June 2018, while on the Out of Eden Walk with Paul Salopek across Rajasthan.
🔈🎙️ “Everywhere in China, in rural China, it’s mainly elderly people who are left knowing kind of farming jobs. . . . People in their 70s, even older in their 80s, use their thumbnail and index finger to pluck off the last tiny tip of the branch.” —Paul Salopek