Starting this month, the Out of Eden Walk will expand its storytelling horizons by sharing customized articles with the New Yorker online.
The first post launching this exciting collaboration was published earlier this week: "A Twenty-Four-Thousand-Mile Walk Across Human History". Online New Yorker pieces will appear roughly once a month and will be reposted here—after a lag of few days—by the National Geographic Society. Other original stories from the walk will continue to appear on this page and on the National Geographic website.
The National Geographic Society and Out of Eden Walk have been traveling together across more than six years and 11,000 miles of the Earth’s surface. This latest milestone in copublishing will expand the Out of Eden Walk’s “slow journalism” laboratory and help spread thoughtful storytelling about the human condition—captured at boot level, in stories ranging from climate change to cultural endurance—in a way that promotes empathy and learning. We welcome our new readers to the global walking trail.
To welcome all readers, old and new, the New Yorker is hosting a live Twitter chat from the trail in India at 7 p.m. EDT tonight. Feel free to post your questions about the global walk at the following link, using the #EdenWalk hashtag.
