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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 26, 2024
Chip Walter's Vagabond Adventure Enters Its Fourth Year Circling the Globe Never Flying By Jet

After 120,000 miles, 41 countries (and counting) National Geographic Explorer and Journalist Continues to Reveal the Variety of the World's Cultures and People

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 29, 2023
Vagabond Adventure Reaches 500 Days and 80,000 Miles

They’ve covered 25% of the journey and a dozen of their anticipated 100 countries across five continents, so far.

Chip Walter and Cyndy Mosites pose in front of a lake

Ushuaia, Argentina, March 1, 2023
National Geographic Explorer Chip Walter takes his Vagabond Adventure on an Antarctic Expedition

This shoe leather journey aims to reveal a little bit of the world at ground level, person to person with all of its complexity, beauty and diversity.

Chip Walter

Chip Walter is an author, journalist, National Geographic Explorer, filmmaker and former CNN bureau chief. He has an unusually broad background that spans both science and entertainment. His work reaches out to mainstream audiences to explore complex topics that relate to the human condition, human evolution, emotion, behavior and creativity.

A Vagabond’s Adventure

Chip’s current project is the Vagabond Adventure, a journey into the vast beauty, complexity and diversity of our planet, and the remarkable people and cultures that live there. It’s a personal pilgrimage. Two intensely curious souls traveling all seven continents — never by jet — one day, one culture, one experience at a time to see what surprises we can find, and share. We’ll hike into little-known and ancient cities, explore how geology and geography shape food, culture, language and music, and share the unexpected and unique people we stumble upon, whether it’s the engaging insights of a Navajo Shaman, a Texas cattleman's decision to raise zebras or an archivist at Mount Rushmore who knows secrets about the monument most of us don’t. This journey illuminates, on a personal level, how our planet’s long and astonishing history has shaped all of us, and reveals how listening and accepting one another can make us richer, stronger and balanced, rather than angrier and weaker.

Chip’s work has appeared in …

Chip has written for  National Geographic, The Economist, Slate,  the  Wall Street Journal  and  Scientific American,  among many other publications, and has covered subjects as diverse as the origins of kissing, laughter, human consciousness, and art. He has also written extensively about the rapid advance of digital technology, a subject he explore in his upcoming sci-fi thriller Doppelgänger, due out in March 2024. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, Chip has been lucky enough to travel pole-to-pole and to all seven continents, from the Amazon rainforest and the Serengeti to the Australian outback and majestic mountains of Antarctica. His cover story The First Artists  was  National Geographic’s featured story in January 2015.

Appearances and Engagements

Chip has spoken at Harvard Law School, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University’s School of Journalism, Xerox PARC, and the Chautauqua Institution on a wide range of topics and has twice moderated scientific panels at the United Nations on child brain development at the request of UNICEF Director Anthony Lake. He has often been a guest on radio stations, podcasts, and online talk shows around the world including NPR’s All Things Considered, Michio Kaku’s Science Fantastic, Irish National Radio, and The Wall Street Journal.