PORTLAND, Maine (AP)– An 83-year-old man from Alabama has set a record as the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail.
M.J. “Sunny” Eberhart walked into the record books on Sunday. He acknowledged that the trail was a tough hike at his age, leading to a few slips on rocks, despite having tens of thousands of miles under his belt.“I’ve a got a couple of skid marks on me, but I’m OK,” he said in a recent interview. “You’ve got to have an incredible resolve to do this.”
Eberhart, also known as ‘Nimblewill Nomad’ on the trails, began walking when he retired over a quarter-century ago.
He hiked the trail out of order, in sections, to take advantage of optimal weather, and had already completed northern sections including Maine’s Mount Katahdin, the AP reported.
He completed his final section in western Massachusetts, in the town of Dalton, in the same year in which a 5-year-old became among the youngest to complete the feat.
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