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Nonprofit | Connecting humanity | Walking 38,000-km from Africa to South America | Led by NatGeo Explorer & Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek 👣🌍🌏🌎

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• “Copper River is not its real name. Nor is Reka Mednovskaya, the Russian moniker inked onto 18th-century maps by Alaska’s early European intruders. The river’s oldest christeners, the Native Alaskan people, called the Ahtna, know the 470-kilometer waterway as Atna, or the Beyond River, meaning beyond the mountains. Its glacial currents pumped through their lives for at least a millennium and perhaps as long as 5,000 years. The Ahtna don’t use the four cardinal directions for orientation. They don’t think north and south, left or right. Their spatial cosmos radiates from the centrality of the river’s course. While hunting and foraging in the Atna’s 69,000-square-kilometer watershed, the seminomadic group bartered precious copper implements and animal furs with their Athabaskan neighbors. They were middlemen, great entrepreneurs. Today, the community engages in pipeline maintenance, forestry management, and subsistence fishing through a tribal corporation. An Ahtna creation story goes like this: In the beginning time, when the world was smothered by floods, the raven Saghani ggay fell in love with a beautiful passing swan. Then the swan flew south in the cold season. And Saghani ggay, heartsick and non-migratory, pecked a hole in the sky hoping to chase her. As described by the elders Elizabeth and Mentasta Pete to anthropologist Frederica de Laguna in 1960: ‘He can’t make it. Many, many hundred, thousand miles that swan fly. Saghani he tired and he go down. He see ocean down there. He tired, he gonna drop down into the ocean.’ Ravens cannot swim. But luckily Saghani ggay alights atop a stick. Slowly, slowly, over many days, he works hard to gather twigs, grass, and mud. Then Pete’s narrative concludes: ‘He walk on top. That’s the way he make this ground, they say.’ And so the world is born of longing.“ — Paul Salopek 🔗 Read Paul’s new dispatch from the trail, “River of Names,” threading memory’s rapids on a wild Alaskan river: https://lnkd.in/gGVQCPa5📍60°52′50″N 144°39′52″W Out of Eden Walk is a 42,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. [slow journalism, storytelling, slow travel, river journey, foot journey, walking the world, history, migration, slow media, journalist, river stories, long form]#slowjournalism #slowtravel #slowmedia
  
• ✍️ “To name something is to separate yourself from its true essence. So say the Daoists. The Copper River is named for a $200-million motherlode of reddish metal gouged from its upper reaches. Beginning in 1905, miners dynamited 70 miles of tunnels into the surrounding mountains. At its peak, king copper supported about 300 people in the remote mill town of Kennecott, with hundreds more toiling underground. The town had a hospital, store, dairy, skating rink, and tennis court. Today, icy winds blow through buildings’ gaping black windows. We drift past the old railroad bed. Immigrant Irishmen and Swedes laid the tracks, by hand, among the riverbank spruce. The towering wooden trestles are rotted away. Only the steel rails, miraculously bolted together, still hang in bowed suspension above deep ravines. Trainloads of Alaskan copper got melted into the wires that electrified America. In this way, the Copper River’s cold song—its watery roars and sighs—hum faintly within its thin metal tributaries now spun across a continent. We float on.” — Paul Salopek 🔗 Paul’s new dispatch from the trail, “River of Names,” threading memory’s rapids on a wild Alaskan river, is available at the link in the comments below. 📍Copper River, Alaska, United States 60°52′50″N 144°39′52″W Out of Eden Walk is a 42,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. [slow journalism, storytelling, slow travel, river journey, foot journey, walking the world, history, migration, slow media, journalist, river stories, long form]#slowjournalism #slowtravelling #alaska
  
• ✍️ “The Copper River winks open its silty eyes in the glaciers of the Wrangell Mountains. After cartwheeling down the massifs of south central Alaska, it pours 19 cubic kilometers of collected rain and snowmelt each year into the Pacific: enough fresh water to flood the country of Lebanon head-high. Two million salmon, primarily sockeye, king, and coho, muscle their way upriver in the brief summertimes. We slide above the migrant fish on an orange inflatable raft. There are three of us. Bill Romberg is the river guide. Walking partner Phil Norris, who homesteads in a bus parked north of Anchorage, joins for the ride. We take turns at the oars. I’m mostly luggage. The Alaskan wilderness glides past like a long sigh.” — Paul Salopek 🔗 Read “River of Names,” Paul Salopek’s new dispatch from the Out of Eden Walk trail, threading memory’s rapids on a wild Alaskan river: https://lnkd.in/gGVQCPa5Pictured: Photo 1: River guide Bill Romberg, who spent years volunteering with mountain rescue teams, attends to wilderness chores like a monk going about his devotions. The Copper River is his temple of memory. Photo 2: Driftwood warmth for river guide Bill Romberg (left) and walking partner Phil Norris. Photo 3: Atna, “the river beyond the mountains” to the native Alaskan Ahtna, pumped its glacial waters through their lives for millennia. Its most recent name: the Copper River, for the motherlode of reddish metal gouged from its upper reaches. Photographs by Paul Salopek 📍 Copper River, Alaska, United States 60°52′50″N 144°39′52″W Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. Image descriptions in comments.
  
• Carolyn Beeler, host of public radio program The World: Paul, I understand that way back in the day, you yourself worked on cow ranches in the US and Mexico. Can you give me any examples of how you communicated with animals then? Paul Salopek: Sure, happy to. And, you know, it’s a little bit funny, since those days, when I was kind of a vaquero, or a cowboy, when I’m walking with animals, I try to speak the local shepherd language to them, right? So, when I would get frustrated, I would sometimes break into my Mexican urging language, which is “arre,” “arre mula,” or, you know, “arreburo,” which of course the donkey or mule from Turkey or from Kyrgyzstan did not understand. Carolyn Beeler: If we were talking about mimicking the sounds that animals make, is this kind of creating a middle-ground language between humans and animals? Paul Salopek: I think it goes both ways, most definitely, because we love our animals. Everybody does. But when your survival depends on your animal partners, you have an added incentive to kind of get inside the head and heart of your animal partner. So, I think it is two-way. I really am convinced it is. 🎙️🎧 Listen to or read excerpts from the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gxFsmFirThis conversation is part of an ongoing series of stories about the Walk produced by The World in collaboration with the Out of Eden Walk nonprofit organization and the National Geographic Society. Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. [long walk, journalism, slow travel, slow journalism, livestock, shepherds, nomads, animal husbandry, humans and nature, public radio, culture, slow storytelling]GBH PRX #TheWorld #EdenWalk
  Out of Eden Walk: The music of animal husbandry - The World from PRX theworld.org
  
• 🎙️ Paul Salopek: There were times when I thought the entire planet under my feet was a giant clockwork. There were days where you kind of get into this mental time zone, where you can almost feel the globe turning under your feet, so that it’s not you that’s really moving, it is the planet that’s kind of creaking like a big gear and a clock. And it’s kind of timeless, these moments of timelessness. 🎙️ Marco Werman, host of public radio program The World: So you did not expect walking time. How did it first hit you or occur to you? Or did you realize a shift after it was kind of complete? 🎙️ Paul Salopek: You know, it came subtly. There were days where time itself seemed to have a different value, a different weight, a different quality. Walking in countryside, which tends to be kind of quieter, you know, your body slides through it with kind of more equanimity, more silence. I could almost feel time slow down, to the point where I started calling it “sacramental time,” Marco, an eternal present. Where the past and the future could occupy the same space between footfalls. There were other times when I was walking along, I don’t know, super busy highways like the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan, where time itself seemed to speed up. Not just the traffic, but the actual fabric of time started gushing like a whitewater river. So, I started thinking of the topography of time. There were pools of time that were still. There were gushing rivers of time that were fast. And it took slowing down, with millions and millions of footsteps, to finally apprehend it in a tangible way. 🔗 Listen or read along with the conversation between Marco & Paul here: https://lnkd.in/gsxPwGQf 🌐 This conversation is part of an ongoing series of stories about the Walk produced by The World in collaboration with the Out of Eden Walk nonprofit organization and the National Geographic Society. 📻 🥾 Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000 km walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. Follow along with dispatches from the trail at www.outofedenwalk.org ✍️ Image descriptions in comment. [slow storytelling, journalist, walking the world, long walk, slow travel, foot journey, global walk, slow journalism, public radio]GBH PRX #TheWorld #EdenWalk
  
• ✍️ “Three men in a raft on a river of 200 billion trillion colors: shades outnumbering the stars in the cosmos. Greenish wet cement. Old pearl. Forest moss. Campfire ash. Moonlight. Quicksilver. Which is to say, waters of no identifiable hue at all. The current sawed its million-year strokes through the Chugach Mountains. Wild shores. Scores of kilometers of cobbled bars and whitewater. The first river-borne Milestone on a global walk. In the far distance: high pale riverside dunes, bone dust of mountains, made hazy by windblown sands. Bars of gold Tibetan light angling on through. Ricocheting from bank to bank, we ride atop a long sigh of released glacial melt, down to the cold sea.” — Paul Salopek, Milestone 166 📍Copper River, Alaska, United States Day 4,585 | Mile 16,750 | Elevation 272 ft Every hundred miles, Paul pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. Milestones reflect straight-line distances, but his walked distances are generally much longer. 🔗 Explore Milestone 166: Cosmic River: https://lnkd.in/gCqAmGme🥾 Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors.
  
• ✍ “Three men in a raft on a river of 200 billion trillion colors: shades outnumbering the stars in the cosmos. Greenish wet cement. Old pearl. Forest moss. Campfire ash. Moonlight. Quicksilver. Which is to say, waters of no identifiable hue at all. The current sawed its million-year strokes through the Chugach Mountains. Wild shores. Scores of kilometers of cobbled bars and whitewater. The first river-borne Milestone on a global walk. In the far distance: high pale riverside dunes, bone dust of mountains, made hazy by windblown sands. Bars of gold Tibetan light angling on through. Ricocheting from bank to bank, we ride atop a long sigh of released glacial melt, down to the cold sea.” — Paul Salopek, Milestone 166 📍 Copper River, Alaska, United States Day 4,585 | Mile 16,750 | Elevation 272 ft Every hundred miles, Paul pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. Milestones reflect straight-line distances, but his walked distances are generally much longer. 🔗 Explore Milestone 166: Cosmic River in full here: https://lnkd.in/gCqAmGme🥾 Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. Image descriptions in comments.
  
• 🎙️ Paul Salopek: You know, it came subtly. There were days where time itself seemed to have a different value, a different weight, a different quality. Walking in countryside, which tends to be kind of quieter, you know, your body slides through it with kind of more equanimity, more silence. I could almost feel time slow down, to the point where I started calling it “sacramental time,” Marco, an eternal present. Where the past and the future could occupy the same space between footfalls. There were other times when I was walking along, I don’t know, super busy highways like the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan, where time itself seemed to speed up. Not just the traffic, but the actual fabric of time started gushing like a whitewater river. So, I started thinking of the topography of time. There were pools of time that were still. There were gushing rivers of time that were fast. And it took slowing down, with millions and millions of footsteps, to finally apprehend it in a tangible way. 🌐 This conversation between Paul Salopek and Marco Werman, host of The World is part of an ongoing series of stories about the Walk produced by public radio program The World in collaboration with the Out of Eden Walk nonprofit organization and the National Geographic Society. Listen or read along to this conversation at the link! 🥾 Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors.GBH PRX #paulsalopek #journalist #slowjournalism #walkingtheworld
  To rediscover time, go for a walk - The World from PRX theworld.org
  
• ✍️ “I can dimly hear Higman chatting above me on the climb. One of his heroes, he says, is Tilly Smith, the 10-year-old schoolgirl who saved at least a hundred souls on a Thai beach by correctly interpreting an ebbing surfline as the approach of the murderous 2004 Indian Ocean tidal wave. ‘Crazy weed,’ Hig says, pointing out wild herbs while I catch my breath. ‘Pixie eyes.’ I see the plants’ roots yanked taut as guitar strings inside deep new cracks gaping in the mountaintop soil. Higman and Divakarla place their improvised motion sensors in the fragmenting bedrock. A machinist neighbor in Higman’s village builds the cheap instruments from circuit boards and mason jars. Higman buys their repurposed e-cigarette batteries at Anchorage head shops. That night in the tent, after the lentils, he tells me how landslides sometimes can be predicted via subsonic sounds emitted by the stressed Earth. Landslides sing for days or hours, then fall silent before the worst happens. Falling into sleep, I place my ear against the mountain.“ — Paul Salopek 🔗 Read “Hazard Cascade,” Paul’s recent dispatch about global warming’s new menace—landslides in a thawing Arctic: https://lnkd.in/eTbF-kcV📍 Portage Glacier, Alaska, United States 60°45′22″N 148°48′18″W 🥾 Out of Eden Walk is a 38,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. Follow along at www.outofedenwalk.org ✍️ 🥾🥾 [climate, journalism, slow travel, slow storytelling, environment, narrative, longform, climate change, trail dispatch, geologist, slow journalism, journalist, walking the world, hiking in Alaska]
  
• 🎙️ From public radio program The World: “Winemaking is almost as old as civilization itself. It’s a simple process: Yeast breaks down the sugar in fruit, releasing carbon dioxide and producing alcohol. The result is a rich, complex liquid that’s suitable for many occasions and usually best enjoyed in good company. As people across cultures have raised glasses for centuries, National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek, who’s been walking from continent to continent on foot for the past 13 years, has joined in this global tradition. Along his journey so far, he’s raised many a glass, which is all documented in the Out of Eden Walk project. Salopek joined Host Marco Werman to toast experiences exploring the ancient craft of winemaking.” 🍷 🎧 Listen or read along here: https://lnkd.in/gCQjW68J🔈 This conversation is part of an ongoing series of stories about the Walk produced by The World in collaboration with the Out of Eden Walk nonprofit organization and the National Geographic Society.PRX GBH #edenwalk #paulsalopek
  Out of Eden Walk: Raising a glass to global wine - The World from PRX theworld.org
  

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