REGAINED HEALTH BY HIKING
Told by doctors five years ago that be had only a few months to live, Sergeant Jack Scott, formerly of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, lias hiked back to health.
Hale ami hearty, and wearing kilts, socks, and a tam-o-shanter, Sergeant Scott has walked 31,000 miles across three continents.
Recently lie completed <>ooo miles of his North American walking tour.
He is crossing Canada with the intention of embarking on tin 1 east coast to return home by way of the Atlantic. When bo left London in October, 1933, for Cape Town, lie could walkonly a short distance without stopping to rest his gassed lungs and blistered feet. » Now he walks about: .20 miles a day with a 601 b. pack' on his back, bis lungs •‘in line shape." On Scott’s first journey lie hiked through I'Tanee and Italy, crossed Io Malta and Tripoli, then on to Cape Town. He earns his way by lecturing atm writing art ides.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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163REGAINED HEALTH BY HIKING Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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