 The transcontinental foot journey will cover more than 21,000 miles, beginning in Africa, in Ethiopia, across the Middle East and through Asia, via Alaska and down the western edge of the Americas to the southern tip of Chile.The project, entitled "Out of Eden Walk", is funded by National Geographic Magazine, the Knight Foundation and the Abundance Foundation.The project is designed as a laboratory of slow journalism that engages with the major stories of our time—from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival—by walking alongside the populations who inhabit such headlines every day.