Paul Salopek, a Pulizer Prize-winning journalist, is walking in the path of humanity’s ancient ancestors. For his
Out of Eden project, he’s traveling the likely route that the earliest
homo sapiens
took out of Africa and through Arabia about 106,000 years ago. The
21,000-mile journey will take him about 7 years. And, yes, he’s going on
foot.
Here’s
a winter scene from Djibouti on the journey. It’s about 90°F. Mr.
Salopek snapped this photo of Madoita, a camel sporting a cloak of solar
cells. Mr. Salopek is using it to charge his satellite phone. It’s a
handy, modern convenience, but they have to make frequent stops to wipe
the dust off the solar camel.
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