This 83-year-old Hiker Just Set a Record by Completing the Appalachian Trail — Again
The roughly 2,190-mile trek wasn’t quite enough for M.J. Eberhart, so he added on a few hundred miles by starting in Alabama.
Even the Appalachian Trail Conservancy‘s own site warns that completing its 2,190-plus miles from Georgia to Maine in one trip is a “mammoth undertaking,” revealing that only a quarter of the thousands who attempt the thru-hike each year actually finish it.
