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WALK ANYWHERE

Morley Williams has climbed enough this year to summit Mt Everest twice – and mostly it's been done from the comfort of his home.

As well as Walk1200km, the 73-yearold has been taking part in the Everest Anywhere challenge.

Morley started Walk1200km last October, averaging 10km a day to reach 1200km in February.

“The great advantage of the approach I adopted was that the moment I left my door I was accruing kilometres,” Morley says of his daily walks on lakeside tracks in Cromwell.

Those walks were on the flat, so from February his attention turned to ascent.

There was the backyard circuit, something Morley started

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