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O 1 READ the article about Paul Salopek and his seven-year walk around the world. How
does he stay in touch with the world?

21,000 miles, 3 miles per hour

Paul Salopek wants to slow down. He wants to learn more about our planet at a
human pace... three miles per hour. That’s why he’s walking. Salopek is on a seven-year,
21,000-mile (33,796-kilometer) walk to follow the path of human migration! out of Africa,
which occurred about 60,000 years ago. If he had continued his work as a newspaper
journalist, he would never have begun this incredible journey.

Salopek’s travels began in Ethiopia, across the Afar Triangle, one of the hottest deserts
in the world. Water there is very scarce,” and the heat is overpowering.? Without his guides,
Salopek knew he couldn’t survive in such a harsh environment. In addition, if the guides
hadn’t been so knowledgeable, Salopek could never have learned as much as he did
about the land and its people.
Thanks to modern technology, Salopek has been able to share the things he has learned
so far through regular Internet postings. This wouldn’t have been possible if he hadn’t
taken along a laptop, satellite phone, camera, and digital recorder.
Even with these devices that connect him with people thousands of miles away, Salopek
knows that there will be times of loneliness. There might even be days when he wishes
journey of a lifetime.
he had never left home. However, he also knows that there will be moments of great
excitement and discovery, which will strengthen his deep commitment? to this

1 migration: movement from one place to another 3 overpowering: too strong
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2 scarce: If something is scarce, there is not enough of it. #commitment: a strong belief in an idea

> Journalist Paul Salopek
leads a pair of camels
across Ethiopia’s Afar
desert (Afar, Ethiopia).

For more information on Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Salopek’s trek, go to learn.outofedenwalk.

com; pz.harvard.edu, an initiative of Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education; or
pulitzercenter.org/projects/out-of-eden, an initiative of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.