Visualizing the estimated timeline of early human migration. Published in A walk through Time. TEST 2
Jeff Blossom
Every hundred miles Paul Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. TEST 2
Every hundred miles Paul Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. TEST 2
We’d been walking the wild coast of Tottori for days. The green-gray Sea of Japan was ripped by high winds, and its waves lashed the ocean cliffs with skeins of foam. Rockfalls were visible everywhere, closing roads, blocking off car lanes. Between its regular earthquakes and torrential monsoon rains, chunks of Japan always seemed to be sloughing off somewhere. Landslides have swept away thousands over the years. The worst one was in the 1700s, which triggered a tsunami that killed 15,000. The sagging hillsides of modern Japan were plastered with blown concrete or bandaged with heavy chain link fencing. It seemed as if the country was patched up by some colossal Emergency Room doctor.
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
Kunihiro Nishida
48, construction worker
Who are you?
I hang from ropes to fix the landslides. I spray cement on these hillsides. It’s dangerous work. Once, a 3,000-kilogram boulder nearly rolled down on me. Younger people don’t like to do this work. I have one trainee. He’s sleeping in the truck. (Laughs.)
Where do you come from?
Tooyoka City.
Where are you going?
Up. (Points up the cliff.) I’m making a steel net to capture falling rocks.
A video showing the landscape around this Milestone
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