83-year-old man becomes oldest to hike Appalachian Trail

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An 83-year-old hiker who is known arsenic “Nimblewill Nomad” has go the oldest idiosyncratic to implicit the Appalachian Trail.

M.J. Eberhart of Flagg Mountain, Alabama, hiked into the records books Sunday.

An authoritative with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy confirmed Eberhart’s feat to The Associated Press.

Eberhart hiked the way successful out-of-order sections for optimal upwind and completed the travel successful occidental Massachusetts.

Joining him astatine the decorativeness was Dale Sanders, who is the erstwhile grounds holder astatine property 82 successful 2017. He told the AP that he’s blessed for Eberhart and helium said records are meant to beryllium broken.

Eberhart was toasted with Champagne astatine journey's end.

While has go the oldest idiosyncratic to hike the Appalachian Trail, a 5-year-old lad named Harvey Sutton became 1 of the youngest to bash it this year. He completed the way successful August with his parents.

Eberhart told the AP that helium really ran into Sutton connected the trail, adding that the lad “impressed the dickens” retired of him.

The Appalachian Trail covers implicit 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine.