Another "moral equivalent:" At 83, ‘Nimblewill Nomad’ Enters the Appalachian Trail Record Book

M.J. Eberhart, known by his trail name, hiked into Dalton, Mass., on Sunday and became the oldest known person to hike the more than 2,000 miles of trail from Georgia to Maine.

...Every day, he said, he overcame the temptation to quit.

"I knew what was coming," he said. "And day to day, the challenge."

But he pushed on.

"Every foot of that trail," he said...
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