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Paul Salopek

The unexpected twists on a writer's 24,000-mile walk across the world

19 February 2021. By Paul Salopek

How much work goes into flattening gold leaf? 20,000 hammer blows.

7 December 2020. By Paul Salopek

Historic Water Crisis Threatens 600 million People in India

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Travel and Adventure

Why animals carry life lessons—not just cargo

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Travel and Adventure

Witnessing mass migrations and China's rise on a global trek

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

A deadly scourge ravages hard-rock miners in India

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Travel and Adventure

Trekking India’s wild north, where bandits ruled

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Leopards, elephants and cobras... the perils of picking tea

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Nat Geo's world walker maps every time police stop him

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Living tree bridges in India stand strong for hundreds of years

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Outsiders don't venture into this lush corner of India. Could that change?

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Memories of World War II bloodshed surface in a trek across India

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

A new battle zone for the coronavirus looms: the developing world

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

Hunting for particles of gold in the jungles of Southeast Asia

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek

In Myanmar, everyone swears by this natural skin cosmetic

5 November 2020. By Paul Salopek