Hiking the Glenn Highway through Alaska. Published in Asphalt Pilgrims.
Paul Salopek
Every hundred miles Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. Milestones reflect straight-line distances, but his walked distances are generally much longer. More on these waypoints here.
Every hundred miles Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. Milestones reflect straight-line distances, but his walked distances are generally much longer. More on these waypoints here.
The trail north from Jeddah was an obstacle course. Subdivisions. Factories. Desalination plants. Power lines. Chicken farms. Gigantic polygons of desert sealed off by fences that ran to eternity. An atmosphere of unreality hung over much of it. The sun X-rayed our human intentions. The desert simply waited. One day, we’d just lay down our tools and walk way.
A wraparound soundscape at this Milestone
This Milestone’s location on a map
Photos of the ground under Paul’s feet and the sky above at this Milestone
A brief question and answer with the first person Paul meets at this Milestone
Boundary
No human being was encountered on foot within 6 miles (10 kilometers) of recording this Milestone.
No human being was encountered on foot within 6 miles (10 kilometers) of recording this Milestone. Thousands passed nearby. But they were on a highway, traveling at 80 mph.
A video showing the landscape around this Milestone
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