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Can we stop for another breather?" I yelled up to Matthew. I was exhausted after wading through deep snow for the last three hours while making seemingly no progress up the steep slope. We were each hauling about 60 pounds of gear to cache higher up on the mountain, and it was tough work. We split the gear up between backpacks and sleds, but had to strike a balance - too much gear on our backs made us sink deeper into the snow, but too much in...

Eric and Matthew were born in Berea, KY in 1986 and started hiking with their Dad in the nearby hills and hollers of Kentucky as soon as they could walk. They started college in the fall of 2004 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass, and discovered the MIT Outing Club. They both graduated in 2008 and in 2010 with Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Since fall 2010, they have been at MIT working on mechanical engine...

During their five years at MIT the Gilbertson twins have challenged themselves to a variety of adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, numerous mountain climbs in the western United States and hiked the entire 2100] miles of the Appalachian Trail. In this collection of stories, readers will travel with the adventurers up and down some of the highest mountains in the United States, hike theAppalachian Trail and take a bicycle ride f...