EP261 十年 五萬公里 醫師與探險家的史詩旅程 | 從南美最南端走回非洲 關野吉晴的人類大旅程

他是探險家。他是外科醫師。他是文化人類學教授。 一九四九年出生於東京的關野吉晴，在一橋大學就讀期間自己創立了探險部，帶著三個人休學一年前往亞馬遜河，完整漂流了整條河流。那次旅程讓他深深意識到自己對那些幫助過他的原住民什麼忙也幫不上，於是他做了一個讓所有人驚訝的決定。重考大學，進入橫濱市立大學醫學院，成為一名外科醫師。 此後二十年，他在醫院工作和探索南美洲之間不斷往返。直到一九九三年，四十四歲的他出發執行一項震撼人心的計畫。人類祖先從非洲出發，花費數萬年時間擴散到全球，最終抵達南美洲最南端。英國考古學者將這段壯闊旅程命名為偉大的旅程。關野吉晴決定逆行這條路，從南美洲最南端的納瓦里諾島出發，靠著自己的雙腳雙手，不用任何現代動力，一路走回非洲。 十年後，二零零二年，他抵達坦尚尼亞的萊托利，那是人類最古老足跡化石的所在地。五萬三千公里。人類史上最長的徒步旅程之一。 旅程結束後他說，沿途遇到的每一個陌生人都伸出了援手，不分文化語言。這讓他深信，幫助有需要的人，是人類共通的本質。 本集沉思者J帶你走進這位用一生追問人類起源的大師故事。 Explorer. Surgeon. Cultural anthropologist. Yoshiharu Sekino is all of these things and more. Born in Tokyo in 1949, Sekino founded his own university adventure club at Hitotsubashi University, then took a year off to navigate the entire Amazon River with a small team. That journey confronted him with a sobering realization: the indigenous communities who sheltered and fed him received nothing useful in return. He could offer them nothing. So he made a decision that astonished everyone around him. He retook university entrance exams, earned a medical degree from Yokohama City University, and became a surgeon. For two decades, he alternated between hospital work and expeditions in South America. Then in 1993, at age 44, he launched a project that captured the imagination of all Japan. Human ancestors left Africa and spread across the globe over tens of thousands of years, eventually reaching the southern tip of South America. British archaeologist Brian Fagan named this dispersal the Great Journey. Sekino decided to retrace it in reverse, starting at Navarino Island at the very bottom of South America and walking back to Africa using only human power. Ten years later, in 2002, he reached Laetoli in Tanzania, where the oldest fossilized human footprints in existence are preserved in volcanic ash. Over 53,000 kilometers. One of the longest self-powered journeys in all of human history. What he discovered along the way was not a geographical fact but a human truth: everywhere he went, strangers helped him without asking anything in return. Across every culture and language, the impulse to assist a person in need proved universal. This episode of Thinker J traces the life of a man who spent his entire existence asking humanity's oldest question, and answered it with his body. 關野吉晴, 偉大的旅程, 日本探險家, 人類起源, Great Journey, 文化人類學, 探險家, 外科醫師, 亞馬遜, 非洲人類起源, 五萬公里, 武蔵野美術大學, 人類遷徙, 向大師致敬, 沉思者J, Thinker J, 日本冒險家, 人類學, 縄文號, 偉大的旅程紀錄片 Powered by Firstory Hosting