A.T. Jumping Off Point for Climbing the Seven Big Ones

The Masachusetts 'Republican' of 13 May 2007 has an article by Kenneth L. Ross titled "Investor tackles mountainous challenges" in which the Trail gets a mention.

It's about Michael R. Matty, executive vice president of St. Germain Investment Group. It seems that about 18 months ago he was browsing in a bookstore and someone pointed him toward Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods." The article continues:

"'I immediately started hiking on the Appalachian Trail and I climbed Mount Greylock (in the Berkshires) in January 2006,' [Matty] recalled in an interview the other day."

And from there he has

"climbed Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, and by next January he expects to have climbed two other of the Seven Summits - the tallest mountains on each of the continents - Mount Elbrus in Russia and Aconcagua in Argentina."

I guess you can do that when you're vice president of whatever it is.