Chip Walter's Blog: Childhood Is Why We Are the Last Ape Standing - Posts Tagged "national-geographic"

I have been lucky enough to be assigned to write what we hope will be a cover story for National Geographic magazine (I'm not allowed to say exactly on what). I'll be leaving Thursday on the first leg of the research for South Africa where I'll be camping in caves next week on the Indian Ocean. I am a very lucky man!

Just received an email from the photographer working with me on this article. He spent a week at the location I am headed to . He suggested I bring some paint ball ammo. Why? Because in the caves where I'll be camping with the scientists, they use paint ball guns to control the baboons who sleep in the caves with us.

Should be interesting!

Stay tuned. I plan to blog , when technology allows here and at www.chipwalter.com/blog. The chipwalter site will also allow me to upload pix.

Landed in London a few days ago and arrived in Oxford England today as I continue my assignment for National Geographic magazine, a result of work I did on my book Last Ape Standing published in January. Been on the road nearly three weeks, but the experience and work has been endlessly fascinating.

I'm behind because bandwidth in Africa was pretty thin, but please visit www.chipwalter.com/blog for updates from Africa, with more to come.