Fred Zalokar was well known in the climbing and running community.
The body of a famed endurance athlete has been found near the summit of a peak in Yosemite National Park days after he went missing, authorities said Thursday.
Zalokar hiked from Happy Isles to the summit using an off-trail route from Bunnell Point in Little Yosemite Valley, the National Park Service said in a statement. For fun, he meticulously planned personal challenges. He ran four of the original and prestigious 100-mile races in the United States in under 24 hours. He climbed six of the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on each continent. By 2006, he had run a marathon on every continent.in 2016. “I’m more focused on what I’m going to do. I still believe my best race is ahead of me. That’s my mindset. It motivates me. It builds on itself. Being perceived [as] successful just reinforces what I’m doing.
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