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91-year-old Dale 'Greybeard' Sanders reclaims the record as the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail.

91-year-old Dale 'Greybeard' Sanders reclaims the record as the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail.

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September 1st, 2026

91-year-old Dale 'Greybeard' Sanders reclaims the record as the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail.

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Although over 14 million elderly Americans experience fall accidents each year, few are likely to fall as frequently as 91-year-old Dale Sanders.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค๋…„ 1,400๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๋…ธ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋‚™์ƒ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 91์„ธ์˜ ๋ฐ์ผ ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋งŒํผ ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋„˜์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ด๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

By Sanders's own reckoning, he fell 71 times while reclaiming the record as the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail.

์ƒŒ๋”์Šค์˜ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์• ํŒ”๋ž˜์น˜์•„ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ ์™„์ฃผ ์ตœ๊ณ ๋ น ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ๋˜์ฐพ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ 71๋ฒˆ ๋„˜์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.

Six of those were what he termed 'hard falls,' one necessitating a brief hospital stay and another occurring a mere 200 yards (about 183 meters) from the finish line.

๊ทธ์ค‘ 6๋ฒˆ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ '์‹ฌํ•œ ๋‚™์ƒ'์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์€ ๋ณ‘์›์— ์ž ์‹œ ์ž…์›ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์€ ๊ฒฐ์Šน์ ์—์„œ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ 200์•ผ๋“œ(์•ฝ 183๋ฏธํ„ฐ) ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๊ณณ์—์„œ์˜€๋‹ค.

Yet none of this was enough to make him permanently turn his back on the 2,193-mile (3,530-kilometer) trail linking Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ง€์•„์ฃผ ์Šคํ”„๋ง๊ฑฐ ๋งˆ์šดํ‹ด๊ณผ ๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ ์นดํƒ€๋”˜ ์‚ฐ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ž‡๋Š” 2,193๋งˆ์ผ(3,530ํ‚ฌ๋กœ๋ฏธํ„ฐ) ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ์—์„œ ์˜๊ตฌํžˆ ๋Œ์•„์„œ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ง€๋Š” ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy defines a thru-hike as completing all sections of the trail within one year, regardless of order, and permits taking breaks along the way.

์• ํŒ”๋ž˜์น˜์•„ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ ๋ณด์กด ํ˜‘ํšŒ๋Š” ์Šค๋ฃจํ•˜์ดํฌ๋ฅผ 1๋…„ ์ด๋‚ด์— ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์„ ์ˆœ์„œ์— ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ์™„์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ค‘๊ฐ„์— ํœด์‹์„ ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค.

Sanders began in West Virginia on September 6th, skipping shorter sections while taking brief rests, and on Monday he completed the trek at the summit of Maine's highest peak, pausing momentarily in prayer before the sign marking the summit.

์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋Š” 9์›” 6์ผ ์›จ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž ์‹œ ํœด์‹์„ ์ทจํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์งง์€ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ๋›ฐ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์›”์š”์ผ์—๋Š” ๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ๋ด‰์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ •์ƒ์—์„œ ์™„์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ •์ƒ์„ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ํ‘œ์ง€ํŒ ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He stated, "I had to express my gratitude to Almighty God, and I also owed a debt of thanks to the support team and everyone else who brought me to this point."

๊ทธ๋Š” "๋‚˜๋Š” ์ „๋Šฅํ•˜์‹  ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ ค์•ผ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ด ์ง€๊ฒฝ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ์ง€์› ํŒ€๊ณผ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ์˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋‹คํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Sanders, known by his trail name 'Gray Beard,' set the record for the oldest person to complete the Appalachian Trail in 2017, at the age of 82.

ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ ๋„ค์ž„ '๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด ๋น„์–ด๋“œ'๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋Š” 2017๋…„, 82์„ธ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด๋กœ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์• ํŒ”๋ž˜์น˜์•„ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ ์ตœ๊ณ ๋ น ์™„์ฃผ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์„ธ์› ๋‹ค.

Four years later, his 83-year-old friend M.J. Eberhart (a.k.a. Nimblewill Nomad) claimed that title.

4๋…„ ํ›„, ๊ทธ์˜ 83์„ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ M.J. ์—๋ฒ„ํ•˜ํŠธ(์ผ๋ช… ๋‹˜๋ธ”์œŒ ๋…ธ๋งˆ๋“œ)๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ํƒ€์ดํ‹€์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Yet within just a few months, Sanders announced his intention to make a comeback.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ๋งŒ์— ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋Š” ๋ณต๊ท€ ์˜์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Sanders' first expedition proved less arduous than he had anticipated, yet his most recent venture was considerably grueling.

์ƒŒ๋”์Šค์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์›์ •์€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ˆ˜์›”ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ์›์ •์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ณ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Despite six months of rigorous training, he conceded that he was not in peak physical condition upon his return to the trail.

6๊ฐœ์›”์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ๋กœ ๋ณต๊ท€ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ตœ์ ์˜ ๋ชธ ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์‹œ์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He remarked as much last month.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"And even today, I am acutely aware that I must maintain a better physical condition than I currently do.

"๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์‹ ์ฒด์  ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

Yet I must always look back and ask myself.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋˜๋Œ์•„๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ž๋ฌธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

'But given that I am 91, undertaking such a long-distance hike is tantamount to charting uncharted territory.'"

'ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜๋Š” 91์„ธ์ด๊ธฐ์—, ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•˜์ดํ‚น์„ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฏธ์ง€์˜ ์ง€ํ‰์„ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด๋‹ค'๋ผ๊ณ ."

In June, while descending Killington Mountain in central Vermont, Sanders tripped forward over a rocky area, sustaining abrasions to his leg, arm, and hand.

6์›”, ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋Š” ๋ฒ„๋ชฌํŠธ์ฃผ ์ค‘๋ถ€์˜ ํ‚ฌ๋งํ„ด ์‚ฐ์„ ํ•˜์‚ฐํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”์œ„ ์ง€๋Œ€์—์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด์ ธ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์™€ ํŒ”, ์†์— ์ฐฐ๊ณผ์ƒ์„ ์ž…์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He said, "I'm grateful that God didn't let anything break, but I'm bruised. I kept hiking without wiping off the blood."

๊ทธ๋Š” "์‹ ๊ป˜์„œ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €๋Š” ๋ฉ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฆ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ฑ„ ๊ณ„์† ํ•˜์ดํ‚น์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

A few weeks later, he was transported to a hospital in Maine after experiencing a tingling sensation in his left arm.

๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ํ›„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์™ผํŒ”์— ์ €๋ฆผ ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ๋А๊ปด ๋ฉ”์ธ์ฃผ ๋ณ‘์›์œผ๋กœ ์ด์†ก๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The medical staff initially suspected a stroke, but it ultimately turned out to be a pinched nerve.

์˜๋ฃŒ์ง„์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ๋‡Œ์กธ์ค‘์„ ์˜์‹ฌํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ํฌ์ฐฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ๋‹ค.

Although he was given the go-ahead to resume hiking shortly thereafter, he even contemplated giving up altogether.

๊ณง ํ•˜์ดํ‚น์„ ์žฌ๊ฐœํ•ด๋„ ์ข‹๋‹ค๋Š” ํ—ˆ๋ฝ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ํฌ๊ธฐํ•  ์ƒ๊ฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In early August, he returned to his home in Tennessee to be with his wife, whose mother had just passed away, and she persuaded him to carry on.

๊ทธ๋Š” 8์›” ์ดˆ, ์žฅ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ๋ง‰ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚œ ์•„๋‚ด ๊ณ์— ์žˆ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ…Œ๋„ค์‹œ์ฃผ ์žํƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ„์† ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋“ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The place where Sanders spent his most gratifying time was Pennsylvania, where he was able to enjoy well-maintained trails and the snacks that 'trail angels' had laid out.

์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ธ ๊ณณ์€ ํŽœ์‹ค๋ฒ ์ด๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ •๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ๋œ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ๊ณผ 'ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ ์—”์ ค'๋“ค์ด ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด ๋‘” ๊ฐ„์‹์„ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He remarked, "If people look after you and hand you a caramel frappรฉ on the trail, rocks cease to matter in the slightest."

๊ทธ๋Š” "์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์„ ๋ณด์‚ดํŽด ์ฃผ๊ณ  ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ ์œ„์—์„œ ์นด๋ผ๋ฉœ ํ”„๋ผํŽ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ค์ค€๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฐ”์œ„ ๋”ฐ์œ„๋Š” ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Indeed, Sanders has risen to stardom among his fellow hikers.

์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋Š” ๋™๋ฃŒ ํ•˜์ด์ปค๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์Šคํƒ€๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Thousands follow him on social media, which has not only astonished Sanders but also expanded his mission far beyond the mere breaking of records.

์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๋ช…์ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์—์„œ ํŒ”๋กœ์šฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ์•…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž„๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์‹ ์„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์ฐจ์›์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

He remarked, "I aspire to break records, but at this juncture, that has become secondary. What truly matters now โ€” and one of the aspects that has taken me aback โ€” is that people derive motivation and encouragement from my endeavors."

๊ทธ๋Š” "๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์‹ ์„ ์›ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ถ€์ฐจ์ ์ด๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ โ€” ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋†€๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ์  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” โ€” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์—์„œ ๋™๊ธฐ๋ถ€์—ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ๊ฒฉ๋ ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Meredith Ewenson recalled meeting Sanders while leading a hike for ten other women in New Hampshire in June, and she reflected that he embodied not merely a belief that anything was possible, but also the intrinsic value of the journey itself.

๋ฉ”๋Ÿฌ๋””์Šค ์—์›ฌ์Šจ์€ 6์›” ๋‰ดํ–„ํ”„์…”์—์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ 10๋ช…์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•˜์ดํ‚น์„ ์ธ์†”ํ•˜๋˜ ์ค‘ ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ๋…๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ทธ ์—ฌ์ • ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‹Œ ๋ณธ์งˆ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฒดํ˜„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํšŒ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She remarked, "Witnessing that in real life is undoubtedly an experience one could never forget in a lifetime."

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” "๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‹ค์ œ ์ƒํ™œ ์†์—์„œ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ํ‰์ƒ ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Ewenson recounted that although the group had spotted Sanders early in the morning, it was only hours later, as he passed them by, that he identified him by the 'Gray Beard' logo emblazoned on his T-shirt.

์—์›ฌ์Šจ์€ ์ผํ–‰์ด ์ด๋ฅธ ์•„์นจ์— ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ‹ฐ์…”์ธ ์— ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง„ '๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด ๋น„์–ด๋“œ' ๋กœ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ •์ฒด๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ช‡ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ›„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์Šค์ณ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

That evening, they caught up with him at the Appalachian Mountain Club hut, where they had arrived around 4 p.m.

๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์˜คํ›„ 4์‹œ๊ฒฝ ๋„์ฐฉํ•œ ์• ํŒ”๋ž˜์น˜์•„ ๋งˆ์šดํ‹ด ํด๋Ÿฝ ์˜ค๋‘๋ง‰์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์žก์•˜๋‹ค.

He told them, "I arrived here at noon."

๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ "๋‚˜๋Š” ์ •์˜ค์— ์ด๊ณณ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The following morning, she and her colleagues witnessed Sanders performing a 'victory dance' before setting off once more, and they erupted into rapturous cheers.

๋‹ค์Œ ๋‚  ์•„์นจ, ๊ทธ๋…€์™€ ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค์€ ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— '์Šน๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ถค'์„ ์ถ”๋Š” ๊ด‘๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ด๊ด‘์ ์ธ ํ™˜ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ํ„ฐ๋œจ๋ ธ๋‹ค.

Evenson remarked, "My initial reaction was that his mobility was truly astonishing.

์—์›ฌ์Šจ์€ "๋‚ด ์ฒซ ๋ฐ˜์‘์€ '๊ทธ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋™์„ฑ์ด ์ •๋ง ๋†€๋ž๋‹ค'๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The fact that his face is attached to such an aged body is utterly incomprehensible to me.

๊ทธ์˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์ด ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋Š™์€ ๋ชธ์— ๋ถ™์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ „ํ˜€ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค.

My mind could not even begin to fathom how he could be so unrealistically robust at that age," he concluded.

๋‚ด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๋‚˜์ด์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋น„ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ์กฐ์ฐจ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Sanders was born in Kentucky in 1935, precisely two years before the completion of the Appalachian Trail.

์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋Š” 1935๋…„ ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค์ฃผ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚ฌ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์• ํŒ”๋ž˜์น˜์•„ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ์ด ์™„๊ณต๋˜๊ธฐ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ 2๋…„ ์ „์˜ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

During his childhood, he endured bullying due to his diminutive stature, yet he managed to cultivate self-assurance through individual pursuits such as acrobatics and swimming.

์œ ๋…„ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์™œ์†Œํ•œ ์ฒด๊ตฌ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ดด๋กญํž˜์„ ๊ฒช์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณก์˜ˆ์™€ ์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ข…๋ชฉ์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ํ‚ค์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He subsequently served in the Navy, and in 2002, after a long and distinguished career in the field of parks and recreation, he finally retired.

์ดํ›„ ํ•ด๊ตฐ์—์„œ ๋ณต๋ฌดํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2002๋…„ ๊ณต์› ๋ฐ ๋ ˆํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ด์…˜ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ์Œ“์€ ๋์— ์€ํ‡ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Sanders holds several other age-related records, including becoming the oldest person to row the entire length of the Mississippi Riverโ€”a journey of 87 days that began on his 87th birthday.

์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๋Š” ๋ฏธ์‹œ์‹œํ”ผ ๊ฐ• ์ „์ฒด ๊ธธ์ด๋ฅผ ๋…ธ ์ €์–ด ๋‚ด๋ ค๊ฐ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ๋ น์ž๊ฐ€ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ(87๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ƒ์ผ์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ 87์ผ๊ฐ„์˜ ์—ฌ์ •)์„ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๋ น ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

During his latest expedition, he vigorously overcame obstacles such as fallen trees and steep rock climbs, but as the 12-mile (19-kilometer) daily itinerary drew to a close, he began to stagger somewhat.

๊ทธ์˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์›์ •์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์“ฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€ํŒŒ๋ฅธ ์•”๋ฒฝ ๋“ฑ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ™์€ ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ์„ ํž˜์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ๊ทน๋ณตํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 12๋งˆ์ผ(19ํ‚ฌ๋กœ๋ฏธํ„ฐ)์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ผ์ •์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๋ฌด๋ ต์—๋Š” ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋น„ํ‹€๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

After lying down on the trail and stating that he needed to recharge, he dozed off for a while.

๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ ์œ„์— ๋ˆ„์›Œ ์ถฉ์ „์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ ๋’ค, ์ž ์‹œ ์ž ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

After this interval had elapsed, he rose to his feet and resumed his hike.

์ด๋ถ„์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•œ ํ›„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ฆฝํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•˜์ดํ‚น์„ ์žฌ๊ฐœํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

This story has been revised to demonstrate that the 'severe fall' Sanders claims to have experienced during a recent trail hike was in fact his sixth, not the seventh he had mentioned.

์ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ƒŒ๋”์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ ํ•˜์ดํ‚น ์ค‘ ๊ฒช์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” '์‹ฌํ•œ ๋‚™์ƒ'์ด ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•œ 7๋ฒˆ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ 6๋ฒˆ์ด์—ˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ˆ˜์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Lammer reported in detail from Concord, New Hampshire.

๋ผ๋จธ๋Š” ๋‰ดํ–„ํ”„์…”์ฃผ ์ฝฉ์ฝ”๋“œ์—์„œ ์ƒ์„ธํžˆ ๋ณด๋„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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