Wow, Walking Reporters from Ethiopia to Chile

Wow, Walking Reporters from Ethiopia to Chile

                            

NAIROBI, KOMPAS.com - It's hard to imagine the distance and obstacles while walking from Ethiopia, North Africa up to Chile, South Africa.

But journalist Paul Salopek will do it by crossing the East middle, across Asia, to Alaska, down to the western United States to Central America and South America, ending in Argentina before entering Chile. Salopek on Thursday (01/10/2013) begin the journey was a village in Ethiopia.

AP news agency on Thursday reported Salopek initiate the first step to go as far as 34,000 kilometers which is expected to cross about 30 border states.

In this way, he will calculate how languages ​​and ethnic groups. Salopek will also prove human migrations from Africa across the world.

Walking from Ethiopia to Chile where the old man needs about 50,000 years. But the 50-year-old journalist is targeted to complete in 7 years.

Trip called " Out of Eden " is sponsored by the National Geographic, Yayan Knight and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.

Salopek who twice won the Pulitzer Prize is intended to create a great article every year Replaces every 100 miles of this journey.

Salopek yesterday left the village herto Bouri in Ethiopia on Wednesday midnight. The plan he walked from Africa to Latin America. This is the longest trip by a man in the modern era. But Guinness World Records did not record this result because it is difficult to make a standard human travel distance before.

Rory Stewart, now anggotra British parliament had walked across Iran, Pakistan, Nepal and rotating through Afghanistan from the Heart to Kabul. Trip in 2005 was later recorded in "The Places In Between ". Stewart takes 21 months to complete this journey.

We waited a successful trip Salopek estimated will take approximately seven years. Success for Salopek.

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