Blog Post #10

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/the-journey/chapters/3-autumn-wars/?sort_dir=asc&editors_pick=true

Check out this link to learn about “Out of Eden Walk”

Out of Eden Walk

The Out of Eden Walk is a story about Paul Salopek who is walking 21,000-miles for almost a decade as an experiment in journalism. He is walking to the beat of his own drum as he walks the pathways that the first people that migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age walk. Along Pauls journey, he is covering the major current stories about things such as climate and technological innovation. He is also writing journals about mass migration to cultural survival by giving voice to the people who inhabit them every day. Pauls journals, pictures, videos, and audio, together create a global record of human life. This journey gives voice to villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who do not often make the news. Paul’s goal is to slow down, observe carefully, and carefully rediscover our world.

The image below shows in red the route traveled by foot and the black dotted line is the route traveled by water.

 

“Walking is falling forward. Each step we take is an arrested plunge, a collapse averted, a disaster braked. In this way, to walk becomes an act of faith.”

Paul Salopek | From To Walk the World

Honey, I’m Dead

During this part of the journey, he found that people in the past used honey to embalm some of the bodies when people passed away. During the bronze age there were many grave sites and these people were digging up the sites to find many different artifacts.

Blood on Snow

During this part of the journey, he was walking in negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit and someone denied to let him stay with him overnight. He continued walking through some of the coldest conditions. I could not imagine how cold and tired he could have been during this part of his journey and what thoughts were going through his head at this time.

My Views

This journey is absolutely amazing. Who would have thought to retrace the steps of some of the very first people to migrate here. Seeing the route that these people traveled and the different things that they went through during their travels is incredible. Learning that someone is out there taking the route that was once traveled by people migrating here is unbelievable. Some of the different stories that he has shared on this web site are incredible. This journey is extraordinary and having it documented is even more amazing.

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