Author Paul Salopek’s feet connect him to the earliest travelers as he leads camels across Ethiopia’s Afar desert.<br> <a href="http://stanmeyer.com/"><br> stanmeyer.com<br> </a><a href="http://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com/">Blog: Out of Eden Walk</a>
Author Paul Salopek’s feet connect him to the earliest travelers as he leads camels across Ethiopia’s Afar desert.

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Blog: Out of Eden Walk

To walk the world: part one

Journalist Paul Salopek embarks on a seven-year global trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego, following in the footsteps of our restless forebears.

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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