Kicker: Eighty and climbing

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: It took decades of dreaming and 4 attempts, but Betty Kellenberger finally did it:

She made it to the top of Maine’s Mount Katahdin, completing her Appalachian Trail thru-hike.

The audio from PBS.

BETTY KELLENBERGER: Once I got close, people kept saying, how old are you? This might be a record. And I thought, I don’t think so. But then pretty soon it came back yes, it was.

And an impressive one, she’d become the oldest woman ever to complete the hike, at age 80!

KELLENBERGER: I think we were made for movement. It doesn't mean they have to go out and hike the Appalachian Trail, but they have to move. Life is a journey.

A journey of nearly 22-hundred miles in her case.

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