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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional ...

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

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 ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional ...

Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down ...

Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian ... the fraction of the trail’s 3 million annual visitors who attempt to walk its entire length in a single ...