China on Foot
Success! Thank you for helping a historic storytelling walk across China to Heilong Jiang, connecting people across cultures and borders.
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING US PAST OUR $75,000 GOAL!
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Almost ten years ago, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer Paul Salopek left an ancient human fossil site at Herto Bouri, Ethiopia, and set out to walk 24,000 miles to the tip of South America. His mission: Follow the pathways of the first humans to walk out of Africa during the Stone Age, and collect stories of our shared humanity in a modern world fractured by borders, mistrust, and mutual incomprehension. Far from being a solo journey, this collective effort—known as the Out of Eden Walk—engages a global community committed to using the power of storytelling for improving connectivity across borders. The Out of Eden Walk project provides a thoughtful alternative to the frenzy of shallower, fast-paced media that often sows fear and ideological division. We need your help to keep this slow, mindful voyage of discovery moving forward. Please join the Out of Eden Walk community by donating today. As we move through China and beyond, you’ll “walk along” with our worldwide community of readers, educators, scientists, artists, environmentalists, and storytellers who appreciate a boot-level view of our shared home—an old Earth made fresh and new by walking.
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UPDATES & INTRODUCTION
DECEMBER 31st, 2022: This campaign is complete. Thank you for another generous year—your support brought us past our $75,000 goal and into the 11th year of the Out of Eden Walk successfully. This project could not continue without public support. Thank you to all who have joined the Out of Eden Walk community! We hold annual end-of-year crowdfunding campaigns, but you can donate to the project any time at this link.
DECEMBER 29th, 2022: **THANK YOU FOR BRINGING US TO $75,000**!
In the final hours of this campaign, we still need and welcome your support. Every dollar raised here goes 100% toward fulfilling our nonprofit’s mission.
Matching Campaign Status: As of December 31st, 2022, readers have raised $31,000 in funds to be matched—maxing out the pledge by Out of Eden Walk’s Board of Directors to match all donations up to $31,000! With just hours remaining in this campaign, we reached the full match. THANK YOU!
“If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.” – African proverb.
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One of the most innovative storytelling projects of our era, the Out of Eden Walk journey began in 2013 in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia, a cradle of our species, and will conclude in 2027 at the tip of South America—the final horizon reached 7,000 years ago by our common ancestors. Led by Paul Salopek, the project celebrates the work of local creatives along its route, and is building an enduring legacy that combines meaningful people-to-people storytelling, civic literacy and education programming.
At the beginning of the tenth year of Out of Eden Walk, Paul is walking across the Middle Kingdom from south to north through a vast and ancient Chinese heartland that’s largely unseen by outsiders.
China is the biggest country yet traversed on the Out of Eden Walk’s long global trail.
Over the past year, with your help, and starting at the jungle border with Myanmar in the south, we’ve covered 3,000 kilometers, or roughly 1,800 miles, through the Middle Kingdom. Today, we’re asking for your support and companionship once again. Our goal is to cross the second half of China, trekking northward to the wild Heliong Jiang, the icy river that marks the edge of Siberia in Russia.
A young monk lights candles as part of his daily devotions at the Tibetan monastery in Muli, Sichuan, China. Photo by Zhang Hongyi.
Ahead lie another 3,000 kilometers of boot-level stories in China, ranging from walking through the amazing Silk Road archaeology in Shaanxi province, to exploring issues like the depopulation of rural Chinese landscapes after generations of urban migrations in Shanxi, to taking you with us, on foot, into rarely-visited conservation areas where tigers still roam the broadleaf forests of Jilin. The climate crisis will emerge as a new serious recurring theme, as we walk together into rapidly warming sub-Arctic regions in China’s northeast.
One of the most astonishing discoveries about walking south-to-north across the belly of China at this time in the nation’s history has been the nearly absolute absence of outside visitors.
Tense geopolitics and strict Covid travel restrictions have kept most foreign visitors away. The Out of Eden Walk isn’t simply a rare pathway to illuminate daily life in China’s hinterlands today, but a bridge to build mutual understanding.
Crossing the upper reaches of the Lancang River in Yunnan, China. The river is known as the Mekong in Southeast Asia.
We need your support to realize the incredible potential of this stretch of the journey. Please join us on the second half of a momentous walk through China together at this important juncture in history.
Every single dollar raised goes toward essential costs for fulfilling Out of Eden Walk’s mission.
A Walk Through Time. Graphic map by Jeff Blossom, Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis.
REWARDS
FOR EVERYONE: To show our sincere thanks for your contributions, we are assigning a donor’s name to each mile along the Out of Eden Walk crowdfunding map. This digital map of supporters will remain a permanent legacy of the journey. See the Out of Eden Walk Digital Donor Map here.
In addition, you can choose to add your name to the Donor Wall at the bottom of this page and to receive semi-monthly newsletters we create just for you, the Out of Eden Walk community, featuring special content and updates from the trail.
REWARD SPECIAL: READINGS BY PAUL. Donors who contribute at the $75 level will receive six archival audio recordings of Out of Eden Walk stories, read by Paul Salopek. This reward is ideal for those who enjoy the oldest form of human storytelling: The spoken word. Experience the trail from home. Updated to include a new story selected by Paul from the trail in China. The audio files will be emailed to you after the campaign ends. **In order to claim this reward, please select this option in the donation dropdown menu.**
The five stories you’ll receive are: “Eat Your Country,” “Sleeping With a Saint,” “Dawn Gallery,” “Walking on Depleted Water,” and “Crossroad of Memory.” We recommend listening while you take a walk. **We’ll update this page once the reward is no longer available.**
REWARD SPECIAL: SNAIL-MAIL TRAIL MIX. *ACT FAST, LIMITED TO 200.* With a donation of $200 or more, you will receive your Digital Donor Map mile name and six special audio recordings created by Paul, plus a special bonus: a handwritten postcard purchased and signed by Paul along the Out of Eden Walk trail. Please note that this reward is limited to the first 200 people to donate $200 or more. We will contact you once the campaign is complete to request information for fulfilling your rewards, including a valid mailing address where we can send your postcard. **We’ll update this page once the reward is no longer available.**
The first 200 people to donate $200 or more will receive a postcard from Paul, purchased and signed along the Out of Eden Walk trail.
*THIS REWARD HAS BEEN CLAIMED AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.* REWARD SPECIAL: “CHILDREN OF THE AFAR” PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STANMEYER: TWO OUT OF THREE PRINTS REMAINING!
World Press Award-winning NatGeo Photographer John Stanmeyer, who has documented nine of Out of Eden Walk’s 10 feature stories in National Geographic Magazine, is generously donating three prints of his photograph, “Children of the Afar” (shown below) from a series of only 150, to this campaign for donors contributing at the $1,000 level. The photograph will be 30×20 inches, printed on high-quality paper in John’s studio, and shipped directly to the recipients. **THIS REWARD WAS LIMITED TO THREE AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.**
“Children of nomadic Afar herders in northern Ethiopia gather in Herto Bouri, the Milky Way lighting the night sky. From here, our ancestors began their spread across the planet some 50,000-70,000 years ago.” Photo and caption by John Stanmeyer.
*THIS REWARD HAS BEEN CLAIMED AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.* REWARD SPECIAL: TEA SET! *ACT FAST, LIMITED TO 1.*
Many thanks to an Out of Eden Walk Advisory Council Member Sunny L., who has generously contributed a unique tea set with tea from the Daiyuling mountain range. For a donation of $500, one lucky donor can claim this beautiful tea set to enjoy in their home.
The set includes:
– Porcelain bamboo tea tray
– Travel-size celadon glass tea set
– Color-changing lion tea pet (if you pour hot water over the tea pet, the color will change into bright gold)
– Celadon lotus flower pattern tea container
– 大禹嶺高山茶 Dayuling high mountain light oolong tea, hand-picked in mountains 2,800 meters above sea level
– Red bamboo mat
– Black celadon utensil holder and bamboo tea utensils
**THE TEA SET REWARD HAS BEEN CLAIMED AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.**
REWARD SPECIAL: JOHN STANMEYER PHOTO WORKSHOP
With a donation of $3,500, one lucky reader will join National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer for a 9-day immersion in visual storytelling. The donor for this reward can choose from one of two workshop gatherings occurring in 2023 in either the Republic of Georgia or Indonesia! Your donation secures your place in the workshop (a $3,500 value) and does not include airfare, accommodations, food or other incidentals during either gathering. Visit www.stanmeyer.com/workshops for details on previous workshops. **LIMITED TO ONE. IN ORDER TO CLAIM THIS REWARD, YOU MUST EMAIL INFO@OUTOFEDENWALK.COM ONCE YOUR DONATION IS COMPLETE. WE WILL UPDATE THIS PAGE WHEN THE REWARD IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.**
National Geographic Photographer John Stanmeyer has generously promised a 2023 workshop space for one lucky OOEW donor.
Other donation options: In addition to the “Donate” link above, which provides the option to send a mailed check instead of an online transaction, you can contribute through a Donor Advised Fund or Cryptocurrency, too. Here’s how:
Donate through a Donor Advised Fund
Donations can be made via mailed check through a Donor Advised Fund (DAF). If you have an account with Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, BNY Mellon or Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, or other DAFs, access this DAF Direct link to make a gift from your account. The link provided is for convenience only, and is not an endorsement of either the linked-to entities or any products or services.
Donate in Cryptocurrency
We are now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Head here for details if Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies, listed at link) are your “cryptonite” when it comes to meaningful giving:
Walking the old tea roads through Sichuan, China, means occasionally following modern highways. Photo by Paul Salopek.
IMPACT
Paul and the project’s Walking Partners are now in northern China, story-gathering through the diverse landscapes of Shaanxi, Jinli, and more northeastern China provinces on the way to the Russian border. When complete, Out of Eden Walk will have spanned ten Chinese provinces, sharing discoveries large and small.
With your support, Out of Eden Walk will:
- Complete the next 3,000 km walk through the seven provinces—Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang—that remain in the trek across China.
- Document a wide variety of reportage: From amazing Silk Road archaeology in Shaanxi province, to issues like the depopulation of rural Chinese landscapes after generations of urban migrations in Shanxi, to conservation and biodiversity sites within the broadleaf forests of Jilin, there is no shortage of new (and old) discoveries to share along the trail ahead.
- Walk with local students, historians, cultural experts, ethnic minority artists, world-class scientists, and others, who will share their stories in their own voices.
The family of student Yixi Zhouma (in green) hosted Paul in their farmhouse in the Hengduan Mountains of southwest China. They are joined by Yixi’s classmate Zhu Xiangxiang (blue coat). Photo by Paul Salopek.
- Traverse and record a kaleidoscope of natural landscapes, ranging from biodiverse lowland jungles to glacier-cut scarps, immense grasslands and even subarctic forests frequented by tigers.
- Visit newly discovered historic and prehistoric sites that are changing the story of the human settlement of Asia.
- Elevate the work of creative local Walking Partners whose art will be featured in a collective exhibition called “Walked Middle Kingdom,” held in partnership with NYU-Shanghai’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, opening in 2023.
- We are very excited to announce a new project to preserve, diversify and more equitably share the growing archive of Out of Eden Walk’s written storytelling. Beginning this year, Out of Eden Walk dispatches will be available in the oldest form of storytelling—the spoken word—in a new audio collection, beginning from the very first stories in Africa in 2013, up through the current point of the journey in China. We are partnering with National Geographic Society and Chatterbox Studios to create, produce, and share professional, high-quality recordings of all stories from Out of Eden Walk to date for a new sensory experience of the Walk’s reportage.
- Engage with local educators, documentary filmmakers, and other thought leaders to spread the Walk’s mission of fostering connectivity across borders through the power of people-to-people storytelling.
Over the past nine years, with you and our partners, we have:
- Published Out of Eden Walk editorial content for an audience of at least 45 million readers worldwide.
- Organized “slow storytelling” workshops with 100+ participants that generated multimedia reportage for national outlets that reached an audience of 25 million people in India alone; the templated workshops are being held again in China and in the next countries on the Out of Eden Walk trail.
- Created an innovative cross-cultural platform that has enrolled 35,000 primary and secondary level students in 61 countries.
- Provided training to more than 1,100 university-level professors across disciplines (not just journalism, but anthropology, geography, and history) in the United States.
- Supported a fellowship curator position and 2023 museum exhibition of “Walked China,” featuring the work of local Walking Partners, which will open in 2023 (see above) at NYU-Shanghai’s internationally-acclaimed Institute of Contemporary Arts.
- Prototyped a citizen-sourced storytelling map platform in the US city of Chicago, IL, which is now in use by a global audience of thousands of students, community leaders, and lifelong learners.
- Initiated a new project, in partnership with an expert audiobook voiceover recording studio, to expand our editorial footprint to include audio dispatch offerings—an important, long-awaited evolution that will make 420,000+ words of storytelling available to a whole new audience.
Sonam Zeren, a Tibetan villager in the Hengduan Mountains in Sichuan, China, serves guests a meal in her home. Paul and his walking partner, Yang Wendou, traversed the rugged range on foot this past winter and spring. Photo by Paul Salopek.
WHO WE ARE
Out of Eden Walk is an IRS-classified tax exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Over the past nine years, the project has spanned two continents on foot—some 12,000 miles so far—following the pathways of the greatest human exploration ever undertaken: the original Stone Age discovery of our shared home, planet Earth.
Why walk?
- Because by slowing down our lives to a more human pace, we bring to light the vital connections among people and the natural world that are missed by moving too fast—insights that can help guide us through a challenging new century of climate crises, income inequality, and conflict.
- Because in an age of shallow media that often polarizes and divides, our deepening trove of cross-cultural ‘slow storytelling’ offers audiences a more humane, meaningful, and inclusive alternative to today’s angry narratives of nativism, intolerance, and xenophobia.
- Because walking reawakens wonder. And wonder is what unites us: We are building a storytelling community across borders that shares its own rediscovery of the Earth at three miles per hour.
A veteran writer and multimedia storyteller, Paul Salopek has worked around the world for publications such as the Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, among others. But Paul felt that “fast news” left an unfilled and increasingly perilous void in the international media landscape: The relentless 24/7 news cycle often simplified complex stories, and emphasized an artificial separation and isolation in human affairs. So in 2013, Paul set off from Herto Bouri, Ethiopia—a “cradle of humankind”—with a novel solution in mind: To walk through the stories of our time rather than fly, drive or otherwise speed through them.
Having started out a solo rambling storyteller, his Walk has blossomed into a diverse global network of fellow storytellers, all bound together by a shared idea: A medley of media professionals, educators, scientists, artists, who wish to foster cross-cultural connections and promote immersive storytelling via people-to-people narratives of connectivity.
Students practicing their own “slow storytelling” with Out of Eden Walk in China. 2022. Photo by Paul Salopek.
Through our growing archive of multimedia reportage (more than 420,000 words, tens of thousands of photos, hundreds of videos, and growing); professional media workshops, art exhibitions highlighting the work of local creatives, crowd-sourced storytelling initiatives, global classroom interactions and specialized curricula, one-on-one mentoring, and this donor community, Paul and the small team of Out of Eden Walk partners and educators are building an enduring community of fellow storytellers of all ages. Already, more than millions of readers and tens of thousands of students are “walking along” with the project online.
Together, we will carry on the project’s philosophy of slowing down to tell complex stories of our time, delving beneath the usual shallow headlines, and sharing the human experience with wonder and empathy.
Village historian Chen Shoukang displays a typical cargo carried by tea porters for centuries in western China. The bamboo-wrapped containers hold bricks of tea destined for Tibet. Photo by Paul Salopek.
In readers’ words:
“Why have I stayed and will stay to the end? Because the posts and milestones give me insight to the world—to many places I have never been and to people I won’t meet. The challenges of the walk and the times it has had to change due to war, pandemic or a refusal to let him in all describe the world in ways that news journalism can’t tell us, with its addiction to the moment and high profile events. The walk shows us the everyday—whether that’s guarding your orchards in Turkey, life on the Silk Road or in remote Yunnan villages.
The walk has inspired me to travel to places that I had not thought of before—I have followed Paul to the Caucasus and to Central Asia and been enriched by these travels, enjoyed the hospitality of their peoples and gained some insight into different points of view.
I am very grateful for Paul´s walk and to all those who have walked with him, fed him and talked to him—the walk enlightens me, inspires me, saddens me and ultimately makes me optimistic because the humanity of people talking to people is a constant that we should all cherish and celebrate and is the foundation of a better world.” — Sarah S.
One of the four surviving Himalayan stone towers at Mudu village in the Hengudan Mountains of Sichuan, China. The enigmatic structures have baffled historians because their builders left no written records. Photo by Paul Salopek.
WHY WE FUNDRAISE
Without you, there is no Out of Eden Walk.
The Out of Eden Walk project is an IRS-certified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Out of Eden Walk is only partially funded by partners. Walking the world is costly, so the project relies on public support.
For almost ten years now, this community has generously kept the Walk plodding along. Your donations help keep Paul and local Walking Partners on the trail, but they also support integral impact mission projects—from amplifying local voices, to innovative education resource building, to the eternal preservation of the Walk’s photograph, audio, video, and text archive, and so much more.
By joining our global donor community, you are investing in a meaningfully connected future.
An ethnic Tibetan weaver plies her task in the Hengduan Mountains of southwest China. Photo by Paul Salopek.
Here are some of the many ways your donation makes all the difference:
Storytelling Equipment:
With ten years of walking under his belt, Paul has honed the art of packing light. But the demands of being a writer on the move include keeping up with a fast-paced publishing schedule, often in “unwired” areas with limited or nonexistent Internet and mobile connectivity. This can mean expensive satellite phone charges, as well as periodic laptop, sound recorder, and phone replacement.
A shaman from the ethnic Naxi minority in Yunnan displays a sample of his group’s unique ideographic text.
Travel Essentials:
These include basics such as food, water, lightweight camping equipment and foul-weather gear. Paul and Walking Partners travel with pack animals—such as camels, horses or mules—when the terrain demands; these four-legged walking partners are costly, but necessary.
Paul Salopek and Walking Partner Liu Kankan scale a cliff above the Litang River in Muli, Sichuan, China. Photo by Sonam Gelek.
Home Base:
Our small headquarters in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, handles behind-the-scenes support to keep the walk moving. The core team actively manages content creation and curation, educational coordination, audience outreach, fundraising, financial management, international communications and back-end logistical support for Paul and his Walking Partners.
Walking Partners:
Walking Partners are crucial creative collaborators along the Out of Eden Walk journey. They are compass holders; they help design and, often, dictate the routing through their native lands; they act as translators and interpreters; and, most importantly, they bring personal and in-depth cultural perspectives of the peoples and landscapes through which they walk with Paul. Walking Partners are paid an above-standard wage for their key roles, and often spend several months on the trail.
Walking partners Yang Wendou and Sonam Gelek plot the route ahead through Muli in Sichuan, China. Photo by Paul Salopek.
“I admire the consistent quality of your writing…From wherever you are at any moment, you’re always the best thing happening in the USA. Thanks again for the largest view of the smallest things.” —Nancy K.
“My boys and I started following you when they were in elementary school and now they’re in high school! We are inspired by your work and keep you in our thoughts wishing you a harmonious journey.” —Robin G.
Out of Eden Walk is a public charity per Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Out of Eden Walk’s EIN is 46-1228334. All donations are deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Shepherd’s cook stove high in the Hengduan Mountains of Sichuan, China. Photo by Paul Salopek.
ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Coalition
The Out of Eden Walk Coalition is a caravan of institutions and individuals who bring credibility and global reach to an alliance that entwines the fields of journalism, education, digital mapping, and storytelling.
The Coalition organizations share knowledge, showcase worthy projects, offer mentorship opportunities, and have access to a network of international expertise to develop and promote the philosophy of slow journalism. Partners include:
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
NYU-Shanghai Institute of Contemporary Arts
We are grateful to our thought partners for championing Out of Eden Walk’s philosophy and mission and for their multifaceted support of the project. If you represent an organization that may be interested in joining the Out of Eden Walk Coalition, please contact us via www.outofedenwalknonprofit.org.
Community
There are many ways to join the Out of Eden Walk community, both on and off the trail. For up to date information about upcoming events, be sure to sign up for our community newsletter: outofedenwalknonprofit.org/email-updates.
The Out of Eden Walk is a collective journey that belongs to humanity. In the spirit of engaging slowly and thoughtfully, we organize in-person and virtual events to connect people through storytelling.
Trail events:
Along the Out of Eden Walk trail, Paul participates in dozens of community-based events per year, from in-person and online speaking engagements to co-hosting multi-week workshops for students and media professionals of all ages. Paul has contributed to special programs with the Georgian National Museum; Robert Bosch Masterclass on Future Science Journalism; Esri; National Geographic Society; Lahore Literary Festival; Loka Locus School; and many in-person classroom visits.
Paul meets with students at New York University Shanghai. Photo courtesy of NYU Shanghai.
HomeStory Cafés:
The Out of Eden Walk nonprofit team hosts monthly community events, including a Zoom series inviting participants from anywhere on Earth to join in a conversation inspired by the Out of Eden Walk-Chicago program, which has grown into “Out of Eden Walk HomeStories.” Popular with educators and members of the general public, these dialogues—known as “HomeStory Cafés”—are informal dialogues where participants join from many places around the world to exchange various stories of “home.” Created to foster tolerance, empathy, and connectivity across real and invisible borders, HomeStory Cafés are hosted by expert facilitators, limited to 25 participants (links to register are circulated in advance of events on social media and in our newsletter), and are not recorded for privacy. The next HomeStory Café is happening in December 2022! Please register via Eventbrite here and sign up for our newsletter for your chance to register for future events. We look forward to seeing you there.
HomeStories Cafe participants swap stories of home, forging connections across miles, in the spirit of Out of Eden Walk storytelling.
HomeStories Volunteer Team:
Our team of 20+ international volunteer Story Gatherers are using the HomeStories map as a way to engage with professional and community development opportunities around the world. Guest dispatches (known as “Lab Talks”) written by educators in Chicago, IL, and Annapolis, MD, and a self-trained medical expert in India, highlight the effectiveness of HomeStories as an impactful resource for everyone—from middle schoolers to senior citizens to community leaders throughout the world.
Scroll through over 1,200 HomeStories from all around the globe on our storytelling map platform designed in collaboration with Esri.
Storytelling Roundtables:
In 2020, Out of Eden Walk launched a series of roundtables with Paul, Walking Partners, and photographers discussing the storytelling process behind the Walk’s stories. In the first series, the subject was Paul’s National Geographic Magazine article “Water, Everywhere and Nowhere.” Panelists including Walking Partners Priyanka Borpujari, Arati Kumar Rao, and Veditum Founder Siddharth Agarwal, discussed the environmental, social, and political factors impacting river systems in India. Thousands of viewers joined in real time for a Q&A with panelists. The recorded series can be viewed here:
This successfully prototyped series is being continued in China with our new series, “China Chats.”
China Chats:
Earlier this year, Out of Eden Walk debuted a series of regular digital roundtables with noted sinologists, as Paul wrote in April 2022: “Now, to deepen that experience, a caravan of China experts and veteran storytellers will be checking in digitally with me, to hold roundtable discussions every few months along the trail. We’re calling these conversations ‘China Chats.’ They will be convened on the Twitter Spaces social-networking feature, and everyone is invited to listen in—and contribute. Our first China Chat was broadcast from the Hengduan Mountains of Sichuan, an ethnic Tibetan highland region still roved by yak pastoralists. (I had to scale a snowy, 15,000-foot pass to reach a cell signal.) You can hear that discussion on SoundCloud, where all future talks will be archived.” —Paul Salopek
Social Media:
Our online community of readers and followers continues to grow. In 2022, Out of Eden Walk joined two social media platforms: LinkedIn and TikTok, where more than 30,000 followers are already tuning in. We’re thrilled to welcome you to follow the Walk in these two new (for us) spaces! We also share multimedia content from the journey on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, and Soundcloud, and our newsletter notifies you whenever a new dispatch is published and keeps you informed about community news, events, trail updates, and more. Together, these platforms share the Walk’s thoughtful, meaning-centric content with hundreds of thousands of people from all around the world who are eager to find deeper ways to engage online.
Out of Eden Walk is now on TikTok. Find us: tiktok.com/@outofedenwalk.
Education
HomeStories:
This fall, we announced exciting news: Out of Eden Walk-Chicago, the city-centric civic engagement program that we’ve run with support from McCormick Foundation since 2017, is now Out of Eden Walk HomeStories.
By unifying our communities on Out of Eden Walk platforms going forward, we are excited to share HomeStories as a learning resource and connective hub for everyone, no matter where on Earth you call “home.” One of the key reasons for expanding the Chicago project into the global HomeStories project was the enthusiasm from educators both in and outside of the United States. HomeStories provides an effective, fun, and impactful way for students to engage with a variety of subjects and skill-building activities.
“We are all more empathetic and globally minded because of the HomeStories experience. I think projects like Out of Eden Walk HomeStories are critical for improving global competencies in students. Throughout this challenging school year, young people reflected, connected, provided hope, inspiration and light through HomeStories.” —Anne-Michele Boyle, educator, 2022.
Collaborating with expert teacher trainers, curriculum builders, and partners at Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and elsewhere, we’ve made resources for educators to use HomeStories in the classroom. Head to outofedenwalknonprofit.org/homestories to access lessons, activities, and more. Out of Eden Walk HomeStories manager and Chicago-based educator Tracy Crowley has generously made a Google Site regularly updated with more HomeStories educational material available to all interested educators. Visit it here: https://sites.google.com/view/homestoriesedu/home.
Our volunteer-led HomeStories for Classrooms Facebook group gained sixty members within a month of opening earlier this year.
For more than five years, our Chicago-based team has joined hands-on collaborations with community organizations, neighborhoods, and schools on a series of in-person walks and dialogues in the spirit of Out of Eden Walk. With pro-bono support from our partners at the GIS mapping company Esri, we created HomeStories—a crowd-sourced digital storytelling map designed to connect people who might otherwise be divided by real or invisible borders.
Today, over 1,400 people from all seven continents have added their HomeStories—many from Chicago, where the idea began, and many from other cities, too.
National Geographic Education:
National Geographic Learning has created a variety of educational programs for students to engage with Out of Eden Walk. These learning platforms include a Google Earth Voyager Story, and an accompanying Idea Set for students to visualize and engage with the journey interactively online. National Geographic also offers education videos and other Out of Eden Walk-inspired classroom activities in their Resource Library. National Geographic Education regularly coordinates “Explorer Classroom” sessions—live digital interactions in which students can speak with Paul from his trail locations and ask him questions. Thousands of students have joined twelve Explorer Classroom hangouts with Paul so far, with more engagements scheduled in the future.
Explorer Classroom, April 2022
Definitions In the Field – Trade
Definitions In the Field – Diaspora
Mapping the Human Journey and Human Migrations
Definitions In the Field – Rural
An Esri StoryMap of the Silk Road
Workshops and Professional Development:
During the last week of August, Out of Eden Walk hosted a first-ever ‘slow storytelling’ workshop for staff at China’s national parks.
The idea of the workshop was to share the tools of close observation, and use immersive writing and photography techniques, to better equip national park personnel with the narrative skills needed to deepen public awareness about pressing conservation issues in China.
Workshop participants. August 2022.
A dozen photographers and writers gathered at the Labahe Conservation Area in Giant Panda National Park in Sichuan to work on in-depth stories about everything from the daily life of park rangers to problems associated with deer overpopulation to human-nature interactions among the residents living inside park boundaries.
The goal of the weeklong workshop was to raise public awareness about China’s sprawling park system, and dig into complex environment stories in ways that engage and educate the public about everything from biodiversity to climate change.
Many of the workshop trainees were forest rangers and office workers who were composing their first multimedia stories. They slogged through rain-drenched subtropical forest, climbed 1500 feet down mountain trails, stalked and photographed red pandas and water deer, battled leeches, and worked 12-hour days that included lectures on interview techniques and field trips around road-blocking landslides.
Paul co-taught the workshop with Xi Zhinong, one of China’s most accomplished wildlife photographers. Two Out of Eden Walk walking partners, Liu Kankan and Li Huipu, also contributed to the teachings.
Workshop participants. August 2022.
The Labahe Conservation Area is one of the rainiest and most biodiverse parks in China, encompassing vegetation zones that range from alpine grasslands down to subtropical forests clinging to the steep scarps at the edge of the Tibetan plateau in Sichuan province.
These workshop events build on three workshops we held in India in 2018, which had a combined media impact of reaching over 25 million readers in India alone. For suitable opportunities that further the Walk’s education goals for working professionals, Paul or an expert representative from the Out of Eden Walk team may be available for participation in future workshops.
Workshop participants. August 2022.
Closer to the nonprofit home base in the US, our HomeStories team offers a variety of professional development opportunities for educators as well as community-building events.
We partnered with the Chicago-based nonprofit Communities in Schools to offer training programs to the many schools in their network. Our team has also attended their resource fair, publicizing HomeStories education offerings to teachers, principals, and central office staff in Chicago Public Schools. Three middle schools in the Chicago suburbs (Wheeling, Mount Prospect, and Buffalo Grove, IL) are currently completing formalized HomeStories training and using HomeStories lesson plans in their schools.
In November 2022, the Out of Eden Walk HomeStories team visited the LaSalle Language Academy, a K-8 Magnet School, to provide in-person training to grade-level students about the art of interviewing, using HomeStories as an entry point. Students will produce essays in each of the school’s four focus languages—Arabic, French, Mandarin, and Spanish—about their experiences.
Former Chicago Tribune News Editor and HomeStories director Bill Parker gets interviewed by a LaSalle Language Academy student in an on-site HomeStories learning workshop hosted by the school. Photo by Cara Bucciarelli.
London Middle School in Wheeling, IL, will be holding a landmark community event this month for students and their families who have recently emigrated to the United States. Hosted by the school and led by HomeStories manager Tracy Crowley, this event will be an opportunity for newly-enrolled students and their families—who have just arrived to the US from El Salvador, Russia, Ukraine, and other countries—to meet one another and build connections using HomeStories. It will provide a template for other schools and community organizations who are seeking to build connections with new and/or current residents.
In February 2023, Tracy Crowley will present HomeStories and the accompanying lesson plans to educators at the Illinois Digital Educators Conference held in Schaumburg, IL.
Project Zero:
Out of Eden Learn (OOEL) is an online education platform serving students aged K-12. This program uses Out of Eden Walk methodology, and reporting on subjects such as climate change, borders, and migration, to provide inspiration and core readings for 30,000+ students representing 60 countries and 40 states in the U.S. Designed and supported by our partners at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Out of Eden Learn brings students of similar age groups and diverse geographical and socioeconomic settings together for collective learning experiences focused on slowing down, exchanging perspectives, and making connections to larger human stories.
The most recent OOEL “learning journey” launched in September 2022, with 2,771 students joining from 152 classrooms. Participants’ countries include Vietnam, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Peru, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Mexico, India, and the United States. Out of Eden Learn’s YouTube channel offers glimpses of their core learning journeys, example diagrams, lecture presentations, and much more.
Pulitzer Center:
Our partners at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting connect students and teachers from elementary through university levels with Out of Eden Walk, providing access to free lesson plans and educational curriculums for Out of Eden Walk-inspired programs. Past resources include examining big topics in short videos, available on YouTube.
Pulitzer Center’s 2021 Teaching Fellows Program selected ten teachers from Chicago schools and ten from a national cohort, and during the extended Fellowship timeframe of one year, linked this group of 20 Teacher Fellows with Out of Eden Walk-Chicago HomeStory lesson plans and other Out of Eden Walk-Chicago resources. Pulitzer Center continues to provide expert collaboration on curricular materials and awareness-building through events in Chicago, IL. Pulitzer Center has collaborated with Out of Eden Walk in support of specialized summer programming for grade-level students and Out of Eden Walk’s University Outreach program.
University Outreach:
The Out of Eden Walk’s University Outreach program—led by journalist, professor, and writer Don Belt—used the HomeStories platform in a summer course for two dozen NYU Shanghai students based on the principles of “slow” storytelling and the Out of Eden Walk. During the workshop, along with weekly lectures and assigned reading, students practiced exploratory, neighborhood-based eyewitness reporting and captured the essence of their hometowns in digital multimedia narratives. The course taught NYU Shanghai’s Chinese students to walk slowly, look deeply, and view their home environments from a new perspective, through the eyes of a global storyteller. A website of the students’ work will be ready to view by the end of this year.
On the ground in China, NYU-Shanghai writing professor David Perry built Paul’s methodology into a freshmen class with 36 participants. He reflects on the experience in this Out of Eden Walk Lab Talk, published August 2022: “…we would take advantage of a partnership with Paul Salopek and slow journalism advocate Don Belt to turn our Writing as Inquiry course—a freshman requirement—into ‘Walking as Inquiry,’ We would use Paul’s city walk series as a model for our own city-mapping project. (Our prime classroom model would be Paul’s walk through Kolkata, India, though, later, during lockdown, we also visited his project’s urban rambles through Tbilisi, Georgia; Jerusalem, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; and Baku, Azerbaijan).”
Read David Perry’s full lab talk about exploring Shanghai with NYU students in the spirit of Out of Eden Walk: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/blogs/lab-talk/2022-08-slow-or-nothing-exercise-ambulatory-storytelling-shanghai/
Exhibitions
Out of Eden Walk, NYU-Shanghai Institute of Contemporary Arts, and “Walked China”
The prestigious Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU-Shanghai has formally announced the “Walking China” multimedia art and storytelling exhibition, which will feature the work of creatives who walk along with the Out of Eden Walk during our traverse of the Middle Kingdom.
The exhibition will be featured at the ICA’s new gallery next summer. It will be the prototype for similar exhibitions that will elevate and share the talents of Walking Partners, and others met along the trail, in the nations ahead for a global audience. Thanks in part to support from readers like you, this exhibition will be curated by an NYU-Shanghai curatorial fellow. The special fellowship position was awarded in Summer 2022 to an expert curator who will be based on-site in Shanghai, conducting research, analyzing submissions, and execution curation leading up to the Exhibition’s opening in 2023.
Opening in the summer of 2023, which coincides with the 10th year of the Out of Eden Walk, the ICA multimedia exhibition aims to deconstruct the usual method of telling a story.
In the exhibition, all candidate artists are asked to reinterpret their home landscapes from boot-level, where “walking becomes a method of uncovering ecological, historical, and technological layers, a way of traversing borders, and a metaphor for spiritual journeys and material transformations.”
“This multimedia storytelling exhibition features pieces from artists who have ventured into the field as well as contributors encountered along the road, including a minority singer, a shaman, an amateur botanist, field researchers, and installation artists. Their narratives intertwine, fold into, ask questions of one another and of us: what are our responsibilities to the past, the future, and the world outside of our everyday surroundings, what kind of stories have been neglected or repressed, and what stories still have yet to be told?”— Institute of Contemporary Arts, New York University, Shanghai.
Mapping
With chief cartographer Jeff Blossom from the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Out of Eden Walk produces interactive storytelling maps that take viewers through regions and cities along the Out of Eden Walk Trail. Jeff collaborates with partners along the Out of Eden Walk route to teach mapping and its relationship to meaningful, data-based storytelling.
This 3D animation was created in ArcGIS Pro software by interns at Harvard CGA working with Jeff Blossom. The map connects Paul Salopek’s GPS point locations into a line in chronological order. This line was overlaid on a 3D map and “played” through time. Viewpoints along the route were specified, and the entire animation was saved to a movie file. The movie was loaded into Camtasia movie editing software, and the soundtrack and map labels were added to produce the final video. Credit: Eamon Breen, Navya Tripathi, Jeff Blossom. October 2022.
Interactive storytelling maps provide in-depth, immersive experience of urban and rural locales along the Out of Eden Walk route—and an introduction to the people who inhabit them.
“The River Roads of India,” produced in partnership with Esri, is an immersive story map that takes viewers through The Indus, The Ganges, and The Brahmaputra waterways, examining a looming water crisis with photo, video, and narrative content documented on the Out of Eden Walk.
Screen shot of India’s Waterways story map, designed with Esri using Storymaps and ArcGIS technology.
In 2021, Paul was a Keynote Speaker at Esri’s User Conference, joining remotely from Shanghai to present “A Walk Through the Anthropocene.”
Carto-education equips all-level students with GIS design and literacy development. Jeff teaches occasional webinars and conducts in-person school and professional development events.
In the Lab Talk “A Cartography Student Inspired by the Out of Eden Walk Explores Human Migration,” read about one of Jeff’s students, who used Out of Eden Walk and GIS to research, display, and draw conclusions from her innovative examination on human migration data.
Jeff is developing a soon-to-launch web application that will make Paul’s GPS data point trove searchable by date and location for anyone, anywhere in the world.
Cartography and carto-education are core components of the project’s storytelling, education, and community civic engagement missions. More immersive maps and carto-education opportunities, created with Harvard CGA and Esri, are in the works for 2023 and beyond.
Map by Jeff Blossom, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University.
Media and News
The PBS NewsHour has featured Out of Eden Walk seven times. NPR’s Morning Edition has featured Out of Eden Walk five times. Over 50 prestigious news organizations worldwide have covered Out of Eden Walk, including the New York Times, WBEZ, the BBC, GQ, VICE, and the CBC. In addition, almost 800 Out of Eden Walk articles have been translated by more than 290 volunteers in 34 different languages.
In China, an eight-part documentary series on Out of Eden Walk is being produced and distributed by our host organization, Shanghai Media Group. So far, the documentary series is available only for audiences in China, but global distribution could be on the schedule in the coming year.
In 2022, podcast/audio interview coverage included Techtonic, WildChina, and the BBC (coming soon).
Storytelling
Out of Eden Walk has published ten feature stories, including three cover stories, in National Geographic—a series of long-term coverage that’s unprecedented in the Magazine’s 130-year history. “A Journey’s Lessons,” published October 2021, recounts the lessons learned as one walks around the globe and witnesses at boot level the effects of climate change, migration crisis, natural resource innovation, political upheaval, and a global pandemic. Photos by John Stanmeyer. Paul is writing a three-part story series about the Walk through China. The first, focusing on the route through Yunnan, will be published in National Geographic Magazine in early 2023.
Detail, National Geographic Magazine. Photos by John Stanmeyer, text by Paul Salopek.
The Out of Eden Walk online storytelling hub, www.outofedenwalk.org, breaks Salopek’s 24,000-mile journey into chapters. Now in chapter six—China—the growing site includes 533 published in-depth articles, a collection that is growing with each step of the journey. “Articles” includes dispatches, Milestones recorded every 100 miles, print story excerpts, Lab Talks, occasional social media spotlights, multimedia experiments, and galleries of partner photography. This archival trove of storytelling constitutes about 420,000 words. This content is free and publicly available on our National Geographic Society-hosted storytelling hub.
What’s a Milestone?
Every 100 miles of the journey, Paul records a short video, photographs of land and sky, and three-question interview with the nearest human. We call these brief snapshots of life across a walked world “Milestones.” Enjoy this 50 second video for Milestone 78, “She is a Little Afraid of Us.”
NEW OUT OF EDEN WALK AUDIO EXPERIENCE WILL DEBUT IN 2023
We are very excited to announce a new project to preserve, diversify and more equitably share the growing archive of Out of Eden Walk’s written storytelling. Beginning this year, Out of Eden Walk dispatches will be available in the oldest form of storytelling—the spoken word—in a new audio collection, beginning from the very first stories in Africa in 2013, up through the current point of the journey in China. We are partnering with National Geographic Society and Chatterbox Studios to create, produce, and share professional, high-quality recordings of all stories from Out of Eden Walk to date for a new sensory experience of the Walk’s reportage.
Adding this new and diverse layer to our storytelling is especially exciting to us as we welcome many new followers who have recently joined the journey. We are glad to improve our efforts to make it as accessible and as easy as possible to “walk along” with Paul by enjoying our storytelling through watching, reading, and now, listening. Audio versions of the Walk’s entire archive of some 420,000 words will be ready to share in 2023, and we’ll continue sharing stories in this format going forward.
We hope to further expand our audio offerings in 2023 with a podcast focused on our incredible community of Walking Partners. Please stay tuned for updates.
Resource Archive
The Out of Eden Walk team is working on a Digital Archive project to improve the availability and overall value of the OOEW media archive through two specific initiatives. First, to establish and maintain an online repository of original, full-resolution media assets. (For now, we are working on collating the hundreds of thousands of multimedia assets, but in the next iteration, we’ll add text assets so that the archive is cohesive.) This system will eventually be available to authorized users via an intuitive web interface—which, we hope, will prove a much-valued resource for educators, researchers, and historians, as well as for members of the general public, for generations. Second, to define and implement a systematic workflow for ingesting incoming assets that includes value-added metadata management. Out of Eden Walk has grown by leagues we couldn’t have imagined back at the starting line in 2013. Accordingly, an internally-maintained, high-functioning resource archive is imperative for the eternal preservation goals of this unique and historically unprecedented trove of images, video, and story content. Reader support is essential for covering costs associated with preserving and protecting the integrity of this archive for years to come.
“So great to have your grounded perspective. I think a lot of us never cease wishing we were with you, and are in spirit…that’s human energy at its best. My thoughts and heart are with you all.” —Jane P.
Trail food, Sichuan style. Photo by Paul Salopek.
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SOCIAL MEDIA SPOTLIGHT
Chocolate mushrooms. With walking partner Li Huipu on the old Shu Roads near Puan, #Sichuan, #China. #EdenWalk pic.twitter.com/pmL15c3RMN
— Paul Salopek (@PaulSalopek) November 9, 2022
❤️ hearing the stories of immigrants & refugees as told by my students acting as #CitizenJournalists interviewing fam & friends. In 1 pd, we traveled to Korea, Colombia, Philippines, South Africa, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico & Serbia! @outofedenwalk https://t.co/sSAPNozdxQ
— anne-michele (@annemichele) September 30, 2022
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