Over that whole distance, 464 thousand, 500 feet of elevation gain and loss. And mount everest is about 29 thousand feet. So if you started at sea level and walked up and down everest, you'd have to do that eight times to equal that amount of elevation gain or loss in one straight shot. Could we link a trail from georgia to maine, all along this appalachin range? Yes.
A few short years after the hiking trails from Maine to Georgia were connected into the world’s longest hiking-only footpath, a WWII vet walked the whole thing in one go. He kicked off a challenge that’s still taken on by thousands of people each year.
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