An award-winning journalist tracks humankind's migration out of Africa

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America

In February 2018, Arati Kumar-Rao waited at India’s Wagah-Attari border with Pakistan. An environmental photographer and writer from Bengaluru, Kumar-Rao was there to welcome Paul Salopek, a journalist who by then had been walking across countries and documenting stories through writings, videos and pictures for five years.

The American is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1998 and 2001) and a National Geographic Fellow whose entry into India was part of a journey that spans 24,000 miles. He hopes to trace the paths of the first humans who migrated out of Africa 60,000 years ago. This project, called the “Out of