Forget the rocking chair. At age 80, Betty Kellenberger set a benchmark for endurance last summer, becoming the oldest woman to complete the treacherous 2,193-mile Appalachian Trail. Kellenberger, who ...
CARSON CITY, Mich. (WOOD) — A journey of a thousand miles begins with just a step. Sure. But what about 2,200 miles across 14 states, climbing and descending the equivalent of 16 Mount Everests? Sound ...
Khaberni - Betty Kellenberger, aged 80, has achieved a historical landmark in the field of physical endurance by becoming the oldest woman to complete the Appalachian Trail, which stretches over a dis ...
When Betty Kellenberger took her first steps on the Appalachian Trail, she wasn’t out to chase a record. She was fulfilling a lifelong dream. At 80, with a replaced knee and a backpack nearly as big ...
In 1955 at age 67, Emma “Grandma” Gatewood hiked through 14 states and logged 5 million steps in five months. Considered the matriarch of the Georgia-to-Maine’s Appalachian Trail (AT), she wore Keds ...
Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An 83-year-old hiker who is known as “Nimblewill Nomad” has become the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail. M.J. Eberhart of Flagg Mountain, Alabama, hiked into the ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — The Appalachian Trail Conservancy marked its 100th anniversary in March, celebrating a century of maintaining one of the world's most iconic hiking trails that spans 2,197 ...
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