Long Haul ; Lighter, Longer, Faster: Mega Hiker Carries Weighty Issues -- But an Extremely Light Pack -- During His 6,875-Mile Summer Journey Around the West.
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › October 08, 2007
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ANDREW SKURKA stood in front of hundreds of members of The Explorers Club in the gilt ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel 18 months ago as a featured speaker at the club's annual dinner. The other speakers were Ed Viesturs, America's leading high-altitude mountaineer, and Harvard professor Edward Wilson, one of the preeminent biological theorists of the 20th century.
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Long Haul ; Lighter, Longer, Faster: Mega Hiker Carries Weighty Issues -- But an Extremely Light Pack -- During His 6,875-Mile Summer Journey Around the West.
What could the unknown, applecheeked 26-year-old backpacker with a boyish cowlick tell this venerable group of adventurers, which includes Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary and astronaut Buzz Aldrin?
"Since all the firsts are pretty much done, I told them it's going to be lighter, longer, faster," Skurka said last week during a resupply stop on a 6,875-mile ultralight hike he dubbed the Great Western Loop.This time, he was standing in front of an open freezer case at the City Market in Silverthorne, l...See the full content of this document
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