Everest 16 times. Still, more than 3,000 people attempt to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail every year, according to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Only a quarter make it the whole way.

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is on a mission to raise $50 million, the largest fundraising effort in the organization's ...

Stretching more than 2,190 miles across 14 different states, the Appalachian Trail may be the best long-distance hiking route in the entire world. Each year, three million people trek at least a ...

At that time, less than a hundred in the world had accomplished this feat of endurance.

The most arresting entries—the entire journal is accessible ... a whole new American genre, the Appalachian Trail journal, popular on online hiking sites and perhaps best known from Bill Bryson ...

The first time Tara Dower set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, in 2017 ... This is, in my opinion, one of the hardest trails in the entire world.” Dower initially fell behind her desired ...