# Paul Salopek

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The role of salmon in human migration to North America

How did humans populate what we now call the Western Hemisphere? The old theory said that humans walked across an historic land bridge from Asia to Alaska in search of big game. A more recent hypothesis posits that ancient humans paddled along the coastline from river to river in pursuit of salmon.…

Poetry and wine in the Georgian capital

Georgia’s capital city, Tbilisi, sits at the ancient crossroads of Asia and Europe, of Islam and Christianity. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek was there in 2015 as part of his global walking project, the Out of Eden Walk, and tells Host Marco Werman about his experience of the city. This …

Small talk on the big walk

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is walking from Ethiopia to Chile on the Out of Eden Walk. But as he tells The World, "People are my destination." The story of the walk unfolds through conversations he has with the people he meets along the way. He speaks to Host Carolyn Beeler about the …

National Geographic's Paul Salopek talks sea crossings

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has traveled plenty of miles on foot since 2013 when he began his long walking journey across the globe. But he's also traversed a number of sea crossings, as well. We revisit Salopek's conversation with Host Marco Werman about those sea crossings, the type…

As temperatures rise, glacier collapses may become more common

Experts and officials have pointed to a collapsing glacier high up in the Himalayas as the trigger of the deadly flash flooding in Tibet and Nepal last week. Climate scientists warn that global warming may make glacial collapse — and the subsequent landslides and flooding they can cause — more freq…

National Geographic Explorer traveling a thousand miles by kayak

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been sea kayaking his way down the Inside Passage, a network of straits, fjords and islands spanning much of the northwestern coastline of North America. It's the latest chapter in his global walking project, the Out of Eden Walk. Salopek joined Marco W…

Paul Salopek's long walk and the the evolutionary purpose of laughter

Paul Salopek on his slow walk retracing the earliest human migration and Jonathan Silvertown on the evolutionary purpose of laughter

How one Indigenous Alaskan village is reckoning with tourism

Hoonah, Alaska, is a small fishing village with a population or 862 members who make up the local Tlingit community. But each year, more than half a million cruise ship passengers step ashore for a few hours of recreation. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek made his own stop there, as part o…

Is small village life as escapism all it's cracked up to be?

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is on a years-long journey around the world, mostly on foot, called the Out of Eden Walk. He recently made a stop in the remote Alaskan village of Kake, population: 543. Many people who live in Kake, and villages like it, come from urban settings seeking wh…

HONEY MUMMIES AND SUGAR-GLAZED GRANDPA: The Mellified Man And Corpse Medicine

Li Shizhen, a 16th-century Chinese apothecary, wrote of aged holy men in Arabia who ate nothing but honey until they died, then lay sealed in honey for a century to become a sugary remedy for broken bones. In Europe, King Charles II of England drank powdered human skull in alcohol, and the poor pai…