NanDee 65 Posted April 27, 2019 Gordon Hempton is a “sound-tracker” who travels all over the world in order to record rare or disappearing sounds – particularly the sound of silence. Hempton has spent years fighting to protect the world’s quietest places from noise pollution and the sounds of intrusive human presence. He first became inspired to preserve silence in 2005 when he visited the Hoh River Valley in Washington. The diligent sound-tracker says that he had to hike 3 miles in order for the sounds of the roads and parking lot to fade away – but his trek through the woods eventually brought him to an approximate square-inch of silence which he believes is the quietest place in the United States. Full Story Share this post Link to post
