This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Starting in humanity’s birthplace in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, I am retracing, on foot, the pathways ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The East African Rift System bisects the horn of Africa—the Nubian plate to the west moving away from the ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... then the savanna and floodplain grasslands of the Great Rift Valley. Finally they run aground on the slopes of ...

On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Even if you live today in the Rift Valley, in Africa, mother continent to us all, on the site of the earliest ...

In Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, wildlife’s future ... Cradled in the southern end of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Gorongosa’s 1,500 square miles span mountainsides, plateau forests ...

At his feet basalt pillars plunge down to East Africa’s Great Rift Valley ... Photographer and National Geographic Grantee Trevor Beck Frost finds joy in places “where nature is wild and ...