[at-l] Colin Fletcher

[WHHAWKINS@aol.com (WHHAWKINS@aol.com)]

I met Colin Fletcher at his book-signing in Tucson, AZ a little over three 
years ago. He had recovered from a heart attack and was planning new 
adventures. He is a very private person. I asked him if he would be updating 
his perennial best-seller, The Complete Walker. He laughed and said that 
millions of people are always asking him that queation. He said that he was 
considering it, or something.
This was post 30 June 2000 on OutdoorReview.com.
 <A HREF="http://www.outdoorreview.com/techtalk/messages/18242.html";>OutdoorReview.com: Outdoor Talk: Re: Colin Fletcher</A> 

There is an online interview at:
 <A HREF="http://beatrice.com/interviews/fletcher/";>The BEATRICE Interview: 1997</A> 

RH: There's a moment in Yuma where you look at one of your older books to 
compare your impressions then with your feelings and memories now.

CF: Those last two hundred miles before I got to Mexico were the first two 
hundred miles of The Thousand Mile Summer. When I got there, my memories 
slowly began to focus.I made this journey in 1989 and an early bit of 1990. I 
was a kid of 67 then. After that... I never write until a year after a 
journey, because you need that time to gain perspective. In this case, I also 
had a coronary bypass that set me back a few months. 

RH: Do you see any more journeys of this scope in the future?

CF: I have no idea. People think that this is what my life is, but the fact 
is that I did The Thousand Mile Summer walk in 1958, Grand Canyon trip in 
1963, and this is the third major journey I've done. I do smaller backpacking 
trips often, but not long journeys like this. Is there going to be another 
one? I don't know. If the dream comes and it's the right time...hell, I'm not 
as young as I was. I'm 75 now; I don't expect to live much beyond 120 -- or I 
might die before lunch. No, don't worry, I've already had lunch today. 
(smiles) There isn't an answer to your question. I don't know any answer to 
it.


Colin would be abnout 78 now.

His book The Complete Walker III, came out, I Thank, about 1984.

Wildbill





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