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Thru-hiking a trail is a long and difficult journey. A thru-hike of the PCT, AT, or CDT takes five months on average, and can involve months or years of planning. Thru-hikers often organize "supply boxes" containing food and other necessities prior to their hike, and have friends or family mail the packages to predetermined stops close to the ...
Emma Rowena Gatewood (née Caldwell; October 25, 1887 – June 4, 1973), [1] better known as Grandma Gatewood, was an American ultra-light hiking pioneer. After a difficult life as a farm wife, mother of eleven children, and survivor of domestic violence, she became famous as the first solo female thru-hiker of the 2,168-mile (3,489 km) Appalachian Trail (A.T.) in 1955 at the age of 67.
Pyle, a lepidopterist, sets out on a 30-day trek through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest to document butterflies and moths following his wife’s terminal ovarian cancer diagnosis. An inexperienced hiker, Pyle encounters challenges including frightening wildlife and getting lost in a cave.
This Mountain Life is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Grant Baldwin and released in 2018. [1] The film centres on various residents of the Canadian province of British Columbia and their relationships with the province's mountain landscape, including a mother and daughter undertaking a 2,300 kilometre trek through the Coast Mountains, a married couple who have lived off the grid in ...
The documentary is about Project Possible, a plan by Nepali high altitude climber Nirmal Purja to climb all of the world's 14 highest peaks with an altitude greater than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) (called eight-thousanders) inside 7 months (i.e. from early spring to late summer, before the winter season begins). The actual climbing took 6 months ...
The Alpinist is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen about Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist.
One of the tours is the eight-day Urban Brew Thru, [5] her thru-hike of every brewery in Denver, Colorado, [17] totaling 60 establishments, [5] the course charting in at 88 miles. [1] She also leads the six-week online course Thru-Hiking 101 [ 21 ] for Backpacker Magazine [ 4 ] and speaks at "colleges, outdoor clubs, hiking clubs, [and] women's ...
In this case, "unsupported" means in the style of a thru-hiker, where supplies are obtained by hiking off the trail. In 2009, Williamson and Adam Bradley broke simultaneously two PCT speed records for both the unsupported effort and the supported (assisted by a support crew for supplies, food and shelter) speed record of ultramarathon runner ...