Paul Salopek
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I asked Ahumei Pamei, a Naga herbalist in the forests of Manipur, northeast India, how many birds he could imitate. He proceeded to whistle into the treetops, serenading one species after another, for half an hour. Here’s one minute.
#EdenWalk
@InsideNatGeo
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All movement is worship: A remarkable book geo-tags the vast migrations of animals. A tern, weighing less than a cup of water, flies 40K miles. A turtle paddles 7K miles across the Atlantic. An elephant paces off a territory the size of Belgium.
#EdenWalk
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‘The world has lost a champion for those held unjustly abroad.’
Our families rejoiced when, in 2006, Bill Richardson flew to the Darfur war zone to free my Sudanese & Chadian colleagues & me from prison. Forever grateful. Rest in Power, Gov. Richardson.
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Sunset, Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. I want to assure
@outofedenwalk
followers that, while waiting for the path forward to become clear, I'm safe and secure during this time of crisis. Thank you all for your good wishes & thoughts.
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I buried my dead pack donkey in a quarry in remote northern India. And this is when I began to understand, truly, the uncommon grace of walking with animals.
@outofedenwalk
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2,400 years ago, the Buddha walked through remote Bihar, India, founding a new global religion. Deepak Anand is now mapping that trail—across modern RR tracks, sand mines, & paddy fields. A tale of attachment, & being lost & found.
@NewYorker
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100 walked km into
#GilgitBaltistan
,
#Pakistan
. 900-yr-old Altit Fort,
#SilkRoad
kingdom of
#Hunza
.
#EdenWalk
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“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” — Lenin.
#EdenWalk
#SocialDistancingDays
#Mandalay
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One of the recurring delights of walking through the world is encountering indigenous fence & gate technologies. Here's a log-step design from the Dima Hasao Hills of
#Assam
,
#India
, demonstrated by walking partner Hormazd Mehta.
@outofedenwalk
#EdenWalk
#HandMadeTechnology
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On this day in 2001, I was reporting a story about music in Soweto, South Africa, when my cellphone rang & an editor asked if I'd seen the news out of NYC. A few weeks later, I was crossing the Hindu Kush by horse with
@PeteSouza
to cover the fall of Kabul. Photos: Pete Souza 1/2
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Announcing a new collaboration with
@NewYorker
online, where custom
@outofedenwalk
stories will be appearing monthly: 'A Twenty-Four-Thousand-Mile Walk Across Human History.' Thank you
@insideNatGeo
, for sharing the trail.
#EdenWalk
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‘Shadows on the Silk Road: Finding omens of American decline on a long walk across Asia.’ Glancing back over 5 years afoot on antique trade routes, pondering how past may be prologue when it comes to once open societies closing their minds, & fading away.
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Rice cakes, wild mountain honey, chai in bamboo cups. Himalayan breakfast, northern Myanmar.
#EdenWalk
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New horizon. Foothills of the Himalayas in Putao, northern Myanmar, looking north towards Tibet.
#EdenWalk
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On this day 5 years ago, I set out to walk the paths of the ancestors who 1st explored our world. 7K miles later, I’m thankful for all the hearts & minds who helped me get this far.
#EdenWalk
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270-yard-long bamboo bridge. Assembled and disassembled every monsoon season. Assam, India.
#EdenWalk
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Crossing the 横断山脉. Southwestern
#China
. Photo by Zhang Hongyi.
#MountsinsUponMountains
#EasternHimalayas
#EdenWalk
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58,000,000 footsteps in 40 seconds: An animated map of ancient human dispersals across the Earth, which actually took about 4,000 generations to accomplish. I’m only on year 8 of this primal walking route. So who’s counting?
@outofedenwalk
#EdenWalk
Animated map shows human migration throughout history. Nice touch to have the map display relief data. I like how at 9 seconds humans hit the Himalayas and wisely decided to head eastwards. Source:
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Some people build Instagram portfolios from their travels. I collect diseases: Antibodies are far more useful. A paean to the human touch while walking across the world in the plague times.
#EdenWalk
#COVID19
@outofedenwalk
@NatGeo
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Celebrating another elliptical stroll around Sol. Happy New Years from the
@outofedenwalk
trail in northwest
#China
. May 2023 be a year of discoveries & breakthroughs.
#HappyNewYear2023
#EdenWalk
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"The mountains are calling and I must go." ―John Muir. Wakhan Corridor,
#Afghanistan
.
#EdenWalk
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The power of image & memory:
Right now, I’m sitting in a jungle village in north Burma, blocked by the
#Covid19
pandemic on the route of a long storytelling walk across the planet.
But years ago, from the ages of 19 to 31, I worked off and on in marine
#fisheries
: 1/9
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Seven New Years spent on the global walking trail—each celebrated among strangers-become-friends.
After a grim traverse through Covid, the
@outofedenwalk
family wishes everyone a wondrous 2021 of new pathways & discoveries.
Photo: Caucasus crossing by
@Niviskar
.
#EdenWalk
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My India. Band of sisters & brothers seeing me off at the Moreh border with Myanmar.
@sidagarwal
,
@prempanicker
,
@luciole_tweets
,
@AratiKumarRao
, Hormazd Mehta, and, in spirit,
@Pri_Borpujari
,
@bhavita_b
#EdenWalk
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Walking across the planet isn’t a weird or extreme activity: It’s what we’re biologically—and psychologically—evolved to do. You want extreme or weird? Spend your life sitting down. Thanks
@Maroosha_M
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‘I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.’—Chatwin
A hike in
#Burma
among stupas & ducks.
Video:
Story:
@insidenatgeo
@natgeo
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Love: Juma Khan, student, walking 54 km to deliver bread loaves to his sister.
#Eid
#Afghanistan
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Life force: Ma Mon. She served us a three-course meal at her roadhouse, refusing payment for anything she made by hand. "Drinks you can buy. I didn’t make them." Northern Myanmar.
#EdenWalk
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Bowl of light. Descending to the Jiri River, the wild and lonely canyon border between Assam and Manipur, India.
#EdenWalk
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1/ Walking across the world, I meet 1000s of people. Among them are amazing storytellers. Some are professionals. But most are self-taught, aspiring, unsung. Your contribution to
@outofedenwalk
helps us find & showcase the work of these fellow bards:
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The
#Tibetan
shepherds seemed to be waiting for us in a remote canyon far from any road in the wild, 25,000-foot ranges of
#Sichuan
.
‘How did you know we were coming?’ we asked.
‘Everyone for 100 km around knows you are coming,” they said.
#BushTelegraph
#China
#EdenWalk
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Fulcrum of the Karakoram: the high, wild, airless frontier of
#Afghanistan
and
#Pakistan
.
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Look closely. (A big screen may help.) The darkened pixels are Amur falcons-each bird weighing half as much as a human heart, & winging 12,000 mi (20000 km) yearly btwn Siberia & Africa. 30,000 are roosting in the
#Manipur
Hills of
#India
. Courtesy: IG
@mordecai_panmei
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Merry Christmas from the
@outofedenwalk
trail. From the first walking
#Christmas
in 2013, spent in the tents of Bedouin nomads in
#Jordan
, to crossing the Yellow Earth plateau of
#China
today, 9 years later: My walking partners & I wish you a serene, healthy holiday.
#EdenWalk
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Nine amazing people walked with me for 4000 km between Pakistan and Myanmar: They are my India. More important, here are their stories of that vast journey, as told in their own words. Come pace off a subcontinent with us.
@NatGeo
@InsideNatGeo
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“I couldn’t let Amrit be alone.”
If you read 1 story about our plague times today, let it be
@BasharatPeer
’s extraordinary recounting of 2 young friends-one Hindu, another Muslim-swept up by the pandemic & it’s human mismanagement. Only 1 of them made it.
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8 years ago I began walking from Africa to South America—and stumbled into a world spinning with rapid change. Some lessons from people met along the trail about living in our age of deep uncertainty.
#EdenWalk
@natgeo
@InsideNatGeo
@outofedenwalk
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Vampire capital bleeds out yet another US media watchdog—this time my old newspaper, the
@chicagotribune
—as democracy’s commons digitizes, polarizes, fractures & shrinks. More veteran journalists toiling to ‘comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable' head for the door.
Today, I am honoring my dad, who told me in 1989 that it was time for me to "get a job and keep it." So, I did for 32 years. Now, I've decided to take the buyout and will be leaving the Chicago Tribune this week along with many of my colleagues. It's been a wonderful ride!
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There are about 20,000 different
#butterfly
species in the world. Most stop to ask directions at this seep along a sandy jungle trail in northern
#Myanmar
.
#EdenWalk
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New horizons lit ahead. Happy 2019 from the trails of our long walk into becoming human.
#Ganges
River,
#India
.
#EdenWalk
@outofedenwalk
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Ten years & 14,000 miles spent walking across the Earth. Thousands of faces. Endless sky. Lots of mountains. And all kinds of breads. Ethiopia to China—so far—in 4 minutes of images.
@outofedenwalk
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Sunset at the dawn of the
@outofedenwalk
trail in China. Heshun village, Yunnan, on the old Silk Road to Southeast Asia.
#EdenWalk
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How does life change when you’ve taken 20 million footsteps from Africa to China? You enter a state that might be called ‘sacramental time’: an eternal present, where the past and even the future can seem to merge. A new
@outofedenwalk
dispatch:
#EdenWalk
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Re-upping this for my brave friends in northern
#Myanmar
, who share many of the same birds—and traditions—as the people of Northeast
#India
.
#SongsWithoutBorders
#EdenWalk
I asked Ahumei Pamei, a Naga herbalist in the forests of Manipur, northeast India, how many birds he could imitate. He proceeded to whistle into the treetops, serenading one species after another, for half an hour. Here’s one minute.
#EdenWalk
@InsideNatGeo
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You’d never guess—frosty Myanmar. Footage of a recent climbing expedition led by walking partner Ja Pha "Jay" Se into the Burmese Himalayas, near Putao,
#Myanmar
.
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Hive of walking partners. Nearing the end of India. Imphal, Manipur.
@AratiKumarRao
,
@sidagarwal
, Hormazd Mehta, Raina, and Sasha.
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When despair for the world grows in me
& I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water...
I come into the peace of wild things
- Berry
Burma hills.
#EarthDay
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