National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler what it was like to walk 700 miles across the plains of eastern Turkey, historically called Anatolia, a land that connects Europe with Asia. #EdenWalk Out of Eden Walk
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🏔️ Paul talks with The World’s host Carolyn Beeler about walking 700 miles across the plains of eastern Turkey, a land that connects Europe with Asia, in 2014: theworld.org/stories/2024/0… Pictured: Murat Yazar, Kirkatir the mule, & Mustafa Filiz in the Caucasus range. 📷 Paul Salopek

After walking 4,000 km through #China , I plodded dazed & dusty into #Beijing , down goat trails from the steamy hills west of the city. Where to stay in the capital of 22 million? 'Try the hutongs,' friends said: a hidden world of alleyways. See our map. outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-…

For 7 months I trekked across #Anatolia , the colossal Asian peninsula of #Turkey . What I found was a landscape crisscrossed by ghosts. Among the oldest farmed fields in the world. Roman roads. Overgrown Armenian hamlets. Bronze Age outposts. @theworld theworld.org/stories/2024/0…

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler what it was like to walk 700 miles across the plains of eastern Turkey, historically called Anatolia, a land that connects Europe with Asia. #EdenWalk Out of Eden Walk
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Walking partner & brilliant photographer Matthieu Chazal is publishing a book of his wanderings in the #Levant -where 'violence and truce, adventure, wandering, waiting, the fragile balance between order and disorder, between life and death, play out.' ulule.com/levant-matthie…

Citizen #slowjournalism from China, inspired by @paulsalopek 'forever walk' UR Journalism Harvard CGA NYU Shanghai @TracyDahlby Melissa Chessher #HomeStories

Thanks, Michael Nielsen. I’ve had to explain myself often-as you might imagine-for 15,000 slow miles, all the way across the globe. The interview with tylercowen was like conversing with a learned old friend who was walking along. Conversations with Tyler Out of Eden Walk #EdenWalk

What was it like to walk across #Anatolia , the vast sprawl of #Turkey bridging Asia and Europe? A tale of the inner strength of Syrian refugees, the grit of a 22-year-old cargo mule, & the oases of village rooftops to sleep on. The World Out of Eden Walk theworld.org/stories/2024/0…

How to find a good story in your own community?

- Curiosity.
- Scan the horizons—don’t focus on just 1 trail or narrative. (Be open to glimpses from the corner of your eye.)
- Listen, listen, listen.

Storytelling tips for students via Nat Geo Education
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Last week, Paul Salopek joined National Geographic Education’s Explorer Classroom Storytelling Series.

👣 A recording of Paul’s session, “Journalism on Foot,” is available for viewing here: youtube.com/live/eUsh-DVDT…

Photo by Tracy Crowley. #NatGeoExplorer

‘Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep & permanent, in the ideas of living.’

Student & guest walker Qian Zhengrong quotes Miriam Beard on an eye-opening 3-day stroll through his hometown, #Beijing .

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Qian “Ronny” Zhengrong, 17, hoped to join the Out of Eden Walk in one of #China ’s wild regions. Instead, because of timing, he ended up traversing his hometown— #Beijing , pop. 22 million. Here’s what he discovered about home in 3 days of urban trekking.
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Walking across a divided island--through a 50-year-old frozen conflict that much of the world has forgotten. Traversing #Cyprus : A new Out of Eden Walk episode on The World. PRX #EdenWalk theworld.org/stories/2024/0…

Global teachers and learners: join us as we talk about the power of storytelling to deepen connections with the people and landscapes around us. April 11 at 10 am and 2 pm ET. Free registration below. Out of Eden Walk Nat Geo Education Out of Eden Learn #EdenWalk #LearningWalks

The Moving Upstream - Veditum river walking fellowships offered by Veditum India Foundation in #India has so far supported dozens of storytellers, artists, activists & scientists. Out of Eden Walk is proud to partner with this amazing program, which fosters people-people connections with river communities.

“A fossil human had been discovered inside a small cave within eyeshot. He was a wanderer missing his head. He was 40,000 years old. He’d run out of stories.

‘After all these miles,’ I thought, ‘I’ve finally found myself.’” —Paul Salopek