For the last three years, Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek has been walking across China as part of the OutOfEdenWalk — his 24,000-mile trek tracing early human migration paths. “When you walk the world… you begin to read terrain like a palimpsest. Some places barely offer a word. Others whisper with the echoes of time. China is like this—a densely narrated landscape.” Read more: https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-08-walk-across-china-follows-footsteps-ghostly-army