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 enraged wind raked up fistfuls of beach pebbles and sand. Gusts scattered the birds like confetti. My walking partner, Rowan Sharman, slogged on, an InReach satellite communication device in his open palm, trying to arrange a pickup by bush plane. A big storm was brewing. It could lock us into the Outer Coast for a week. We were running short of food, and tired from a six-week traverse of the wild coastline. We were in retreat. The walk would be paused for months while gales hammered the ocean footings of the misnamed Fairweather Range.
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
No human being was encountered at this Milestone.
A video showing the landscape around this Milestone
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