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🥾 In 2013, Paul Salopek set out from Ethiopia to retrace the dawn voyage of the Homo sapiens who first walked out of Africa during the Stone Age. For 13 years, Paul has paced off 17,000 miles of those ancestral trails. Out of Eden Walk is a continuous storytelling journey, and we need your support.
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Each of Paul's dispatches is a timely reminder that the human story is one of migration, to migrate is a profoundly human act, and the stories of our lives are deeply interconnected with the stories of people dispersed around the globe.

Truly the epic journey of our age.
"13 yrs ago, I trekked out of Ethiopia to retrace the pathways of our ... Stone Age ancestors.... Now, having reached the last rim of Asia, I’ve run out of solid ground. So I’m hitching a ride to the Americas on the Maersk San Vicente." —Paul Salopek outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/blue-highway
Blue Highway
Across the North Pacific by container ship.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"13 yrs ago, I trekked out of Ethiopia to retrace the pathways of our ... Stone Age ancestors.... Now, having reached the last rim of Asia, I’ve run out of solid ground. So I’m hitching a ride to the Americas on the Maersk San Vicente." —Paul Salopek outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/blue-highway
Blue Highway
Across the North Pacific by container ship.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Almost 13 years ago, Paul Salopek 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. Here, Paul talks about the trail ahead.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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#NatGeoExplorer @paulsalopek.social has been walking across the globe for over a decade as part of the @outofedenwalk.social. He often walks through sparsely populated, extremely remote places. That trek comes with a major concern: What do you do when you get sick?
Staying healthy on the Out of Eden Walk - The World from PRX
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been walking across the globe for over a decade as part of the Out of Eden Walk. He often walks through sparsely populated, extremely remote places. That ...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🥾 In 2013, Paul Salopek set out from Ethiopia to retrace the dawn voyage of the Homo sapiens who first walked out of Africa during the Stone Age. For 13 years, Paul has paced off 17,000 miles of those ancestral trails. Out of Eden Walk is a continuous storytelling journey, and we need your support.
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The nation currently known as Turkey sits where Europe meets Asia. That land was once known to Europeans as part of the Levant. #NatGeoExplorer @paulsalopek.social walked across Turkey on foot in 2014, and looks back on the experience. cc: @outofedenwalk.social
Out of Eden Walk: Walking through Turkey between conflicts - The World from PRX
The nation currently known as Turkey sits where Europe meets Asia. That land was once known to Europeans as part of the Levant. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek walked across Turkey on foot i...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Assembled by Nat Geo, a compilation of 25 photos from this ongoing walk across the world. Images by John Stanmeyer, Murat Yazar, Zhang Hongyi, Liu Lifeng, Youngrae Kim, Soichiro Koriyama, & Paul Salopek, and courtesy Georgia National Museum & E. H. Wilson: www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/artic...
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
A message from Paul: “The Out of Eden Walk walking partner family is diminished. Inayat Ali, my wise and humane walking partner in the remote Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, died last week, in his beloved mountains in Gilgit-Baltistan, of a heart attack. He was only 52.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Paul will join CBC Radio’s The Current with Matt Galloway this Thursday, Oct 23rd to discuss the latest steps in the Out of Eden Walk, a 38,000-kilometer journey across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors.

🎧 Listen to the conversation live on Thurs at 8:30 am EDT: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Today at 11:15 am EDT, Paul Salopek is joining Ros Atkins on BBC Radio 4.

🎧🎙️ Listen live here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/l...

Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000-kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors.
October 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"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."

Read Paul's latest dispatch from the trail in Japan: outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/goodbye-to-j...
Goodbye to Japan
1,500 kilometers through a landscape of desire.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🎙️🎧 “As storytellers, if I sense a story is unfolding with the people I’m meeting, then I will share, ‘Hey, I just walked here from Ethiopia.’” — @paulsalopek.social to host Carolyn Beeler on @theworld.org

Listen or read along with “Small talk on the Eden Walk” here: theworld.org/stories/2025...
October 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Japan I found steeped in yearning. Yearning, to be sure, might be the universal human condition: inescapable, without any particular geography. You experience it everywhere and often while walking through the world.” — @paulsalopek.social ✍️ outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/goodbye-to-j...
October 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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#NatGeoExplorer @paulsalopek.social is walking from Ethiopia to Chile on the @outofedenwalk.social. But as he tells The World, “people are my destination.” The story of the walk unfolds through conversations he has with the people he meets along the way.
Small talk on the Eden Walk - The World from PRX
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is walking from Ethiopia to Chile on the Out of Eden Walk. But as he tells The World, "people are my destination." The story of the walk unfolds through conve...
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August 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🎙️“Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek

Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below.

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/bRjKvP2Xg3
July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“‘I don’t like this place,’ announces Jang Yikweon. We’re hiking in a pretty little valley in rural South Korea, Jang & I, traversing a storybook landscape of electric green rice paddies, cozy farming hamlets, mossy hill forests.” — @PaulSalopek Read more: https://t.co/BBiV25rNlD
Silence of the Frogs
Wading Through South Korea with a champion amphibian whisperer.
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July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎙️“Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek

Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below. 🎧

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/GEtMVcRd6S
July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“I’ve been offered shelter [&] food. People give me their stories, which are precious, right?... I’ve written: I wake up, & the word that comes to mind is ‘yes.’ Yes, I’ll do this another day.” @PaulSalopek (Begins @ 1:39:26 min) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0klm4lv @BBCSounds @BBCRadioLondon
July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🔈 “Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek

🎙️ Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast.

Listen to the conversation here: https://t.co/2eer0PrKpo 🎧 https://t.co/jEnir4ukqR
Episode #311: Where the Streets Have No Name — Insight Myanmar
Chronicling acts of survival, mapping the resilience of communities, and portraying the spirit of protest
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July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎙️ “That’s what human beings are . . . we kind of have these qualities of mud within us.” — @PaulSalopek to @carolynbeeler. Listen or read along: https://t.co/zS3PvpJiXs This story is part of an ongoing series produced by @TheWorld in collab with Out of Eden Walk & @InsideNatGeo.
July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“I started to think about what is mud after all, right? It’s earth, & it’s water & it’s motion. . . . Mud can’t just settle, or it turns into kind of stone after a while. It requires tides, requires movement. And I thought: That’s who we are. That is what life is.” — @PaulSalopek https:/...
July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“Let it be known that I’m something of a connoisseur of convenience stores. This goes way back.” — @PaulSalopek

✍️ Read the latest dispatch from the trail in South Korea: https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-02-cellophane-oasis #EdenWalk
Cellophane Oasis
Walking the modern Silk Roads through Asia, where caravanserais are reincarnated as convenience stores.
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July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎙️🔉 Paul recently joined @TVNaga01 @bbc5live @BBCSounds for a conversation about Out of Eden Walk. Listen to the conversation, which begins at 02:12:55 mins, at the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027jsx @PaulSalopek #EdenWalk
July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“A journey of 38,000-kilometers begins with a single step.”

🎙 Paul recently joined @radionz to talk about the Out of Eden Walk journey.

Listen to the conversation, “Retracing the first human migration,” at the link. 🎧

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Retracing the first human migration
A journey of 38,000-kilometers begins with a single step. 12 years ago this month, journalist Paul Salopek set off on a journey that follows the first human migration out of Africa, starting in the great Rift Valley in Ethiopia where the first human fossils were found with plans to end at Tierra del Fuego at the Southern Tip of South America. He calls the journey the "Out of Eden" walk with the support of the National Geographic Society. He sends dispatches from the road that tell the story of each place he goes. He speaks to Jesse today from somewhere in Japan.
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July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM