Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders has spent his eighties and nineties chasing endurance records. His latest attempt could make him ...

Dale “Grey Beard” Sanders once set the record as the oldest person to complete the roughly 2,190-mile trail. Now, he’s back ...

Ninety-one-year-old Dale Sanders is hiking the Appalachian Trail again. He aims to become the oldest person to complete this ...

Meet the 91-year-old hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail is an incredibly challenging feat. The 2,100-mile route from Georgia to Maine includes 900,000 vertical feet of climbing, and just about one in four people who set ...

When Sarah Baker stepped onto the Appalachian Trail’s southern terminus in Georgia this April, she had an ambitious plan. The 43-year-old Tennessean hoped to unseat the self-supported female record ...

The first time Tara Dower set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, in 2017, she had a panic attack. She felt alone and overwhelmed just eight days after setting off from the trail’s southern ...

Most Appalachian Trail thru-hikers take around six months to finish the trail's 2,197 miles, averaging 14 to 20 miles per day. There is also a high failure rate, with one out of three who attempt the ...

A new speed record has been set for completing the Appalachian Trail, according to media reports and the feat-tracking website fastestknowntime.com. Dower spoke with Easton-based Runner’s World ...