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National Geographic journalist Paul Salopek has been walking around the world since 2013. But now that he\u2019s in Alaska, his main mode of transportation is about to change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nHe\u2019s following the path of Stone Age human migration out of Africa and across the globe. He started in Ethiopia, walked out of Africa, through the Middle East, Central Asia, the Himalayas, China, South Korea and Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Along the way, he speaks with people he meets, takes videos of the landscape around him, and writes up his experiences. National Geographic hosts the project, which is called the Out of Eden Walk.<\/p>\n

As Salopek described it, the experience of walking this long journey is a way to connect with people around the world more deeply \u2014 and more slowly \u2014 than any other form of travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI\u2019ve likened it to a listening journey, where I just open my ears and my eyes and kind of let people, hopefully, if they trust me enough, open their hearts and share their concerns and their dreams,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last year, he arrived back in North America via container ship from Asia. He started walking again at Beluga Point near Anchorage. He then walked down the Glenn Highway, floated the Copper River, and walked the outer coast of Alaska to Gustavus, where he is now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\u201cAlaska is important in that global picture,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause, of course, it\u2019s the bridge to the Americas, where people you know, on foot and by skin covered vessels, presumably dispersed into this continent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nSalopek\u2019s arrival in Southeast Alaska marks a shift in how he will approach his journey. While he has taken boats when necessary to cross large bodies of water, he\u2019s about to take a small one as part of his experiment mimicking the path of human migration.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe methodology is going to change here in Gustavus,\u201d he said. \u201cFor the first time, I\u2019m planning to go south by sea kayak. And the reasoning there is that ancient humans who dispersed into this continent also used watercraft, and I want to honor that passage. So the plan is soon to be kayak paddling south towards Vancouver through the Inside Passage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nOf course, people today, not just thousands of years ago, still take small boats throughout Southeast Alaska. In just a couple of weeks, Indigenous people across the region and state will set out in canoes \u2014 as well as planes and ferries and catamarans \u2014 to come to Celebration, the biennial cultural gathering in Juneau.<\/p>\n

\nThroughout Salopek\u2019s journey, he said he\u2019s learned that humanity, despite conflict and strife, has a lot in common. As of last June, he\u2019d traveled more than 21,000 miles total \u2014 15,000 were by foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nMost people he\u2019s encountered are concerned about their families, their work, the economy and the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIf you sit down with somebody over a cup of tea or over a beer, and you spend enough time talking and listening,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ll find that their concerns are pretty much your own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Salopek started walking 13 years ago, a lot has changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThere are tectonic shifts happening in the world right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel them even when I\u2019m out walking in remote mountains, in the Himalaya Mountains in Central Asia, or, you know, walking down the Glen Highway in Alaska. I can feel vibrations under my feet that we all feel, that the world is in a phase of rapid change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nBut he said the slow process of walking helps combat the dizziness we all feel in this moment in history.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWalking kind of slows you down so that you can see time and its fullness,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think that helps put things into perspective that what we\u2019re going through now has happened before, probably has happened many times before in human history, and that human beings are great problem solvers. We are a problem-solving species.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salopek said his sea kayak journey will begin soon. He\u2019s ultimately heading for the southern tip of South America, where he will end his journey having walked more than 25,000 miles.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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