![]() ![]() Ives, Cornwall for a year where he was an instructor at the Mountain Warfare Training Centre. He married Sonia Mary Ash in 1945 and they lived in St. Through successive editions, this book became the definitive work on the topic and was christened "the Hiker's Bible" by Field & Stream magazine.īiography Early life and career īorn in Cardiff, Wales, on 14 March 1922, Fletcher was educated in England and served six years in the Royal Marine Commandos during World War II. Through his influential hiker's guide, The Complete Walker, published the same year, he became a kind of "spiritual godfather" of the wilderness backpacking movement. Fletcher obtained the route information critical for successfully completing his epic trip from the godfather of Grand Canyon hiking, Harvey Butchart, who completed the distance barely ahead of Fletcher the same year – having hiked it one section at a time over 17 years. ![]() Although his route spans only a little more than one-third the length of Grand Canyon, Fletcher was only the second person to complete this section and the first to accomplish the feat "in one go" – as chronicled in his bestselling 1968 memoir The Man Who Walked Through Time. In 1963, Fletcher walked the length of that portion of Grand Canyon contained within the 1963 boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park. ![]() ![]() Colin Fletcher (photograph, John Sexton/ Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association)Ĭolin Fletcher (14 March 1922 – 12 June 2007) was a pioneering backpacker and writer. ![]()
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