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What tech powers a global walk?

Paul Salopek is a National Geographic Explorer walking from Ethiopia to South America on foot. But it’s also a journalism job. That means conducting interviews, taking photos and videos, and nonstop note-taking and writing. He joins Carolyn Beeler to peel back the curtain on the technology that has kept him connected for the past 13 years, even when he is days of travel away from the nearest outlet or wi-fi signal.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is a man on a 22,000-mile walk from Ethiopia to the southern tip of South America. He’s documenting it all in a project known as Out of Eden Walk .

Walking the huge expanses in between involves a lot of setting up camp in the middle of nowhere.…