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Cedar Wings Article on “A Million Steps”

Monday, May 31st, 2010

The June/July 2010 issue of Cedar Wings, the in-flight magazine of Middle East Airlines, has featured a 10 page article on “A Million Steps”. If you will be traveling with MEA this summer, be sure to check it out.

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“El-Hibri’s debut release, A Million Steps  takes you on a journey to a little-before-seen world, a side of Lebanon that cannot be reached by car or plane but simply on foot. Self-published, with text accompanied by the stunning photography of Norbert Schiller, the book is a vibrant and touching journey that reveals the true beauty of Lebanon and its people, one step at a time. How did it all begin?”

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L’Orient – Le jour Article on ” A Million Steps”

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Journalist, Carla Henoud wrote an Article in the L’Orient – Le Jour on “A Million Steps”. Check it out here:

www.lorientlejour.com/category/Ici+et+Ailleurs/article/658482/Voyage_a_la_decouverte__des_paysages_interieurs.html

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Short video on the LMT thru-walk

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Photojournalist Dana Smillie has produced a short video on the 2009 LMT thru-walk. Its an updated, much more comprehensive version of the Time.com piece that ran in April of last year. Check it out!

http://www.vimeo.com/11543914

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Read the review in the Daily Star

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

You can read a review in the Arts and culture section of the Daily Star

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Now Lebanon Video

Sunday, April 18th, 2010


“Hana Hibri discovered her passion for hiking many years ago while on an expedition in the US state of Wyoming. That passion has taken her to the peaks of the Colorado Rockies, the Pyrenees, the Alps and Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa. But her 2009 experience hiking the distance of Lebanon was her best journey yet”. For more here is the link to the video on Now Lebanon:

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=161222&MID=123&PID=2

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Reflecting back on the Thru-Walk

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Hana on Break

I am happy to have shared a glimpse of this wonderful adventure with all of you.  In the coming months I hope to revisit many of the villages and sites that I didn’t have as much time in as I would have liked.  There are so many interesting people I would like to talk to more.

So I will continue to update the blog with new pictures taken by different people who joined us, and my trips back into the mountains. Be sure to come back weekly and check for new stories from our adventure. As for Norbert’s photos; you’ll just have to wait for the book  : ). Thank you all for your feedback and comments. I apologize for not responding immediately. It was all I could do to just get the blog post out every day.

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The Last Stretch: Hasbaya to Marjeyoun

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Day 29

Members of the youth organization SOIL (Save Our Inherited Land) gave us a very warm welcome last night in Hasbaya. They manage the LMT guest house here, and do it with great enthusiasm and energy.

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A brief walk through the streets of Hasbaya lead us out into the fields and terraced olive groves. We skirted the heavily wooded oak forest of Hasbaya through shoulder high grass, flowers and thistle. There was an abundance of thick trunked olive trees. Many over 1000 yrs. old.
In the town of Ibl El Saqi we met a contingent of French UNIFIL forces.

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They were very interested in what we were doing and asked many questions about the LMT. Just outside of town we passed by the ruins of a caravanserai that used to be on the ancient trade routes.

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Thru-Walk Featured on Time.com

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

On the 11th of April, I mentioned that video journalist Dana Smilie join us for a day to cover the thru-walk. This is the day we were also joined by more people as it was the weekend. You can see Tannourine waterfall in the beginning of the clip. Very cool! It almost does it justice.  Dana is great, and it didnt take her very long to finish the piece. You can see interviews with Norbert and I as well as some amazing footage from that day. I working on getting the video embedded into the site, but for now, you can watch the video here.

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Ain Zhalta to Barouk

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Day 21

We were joined last night by two Italian photo journalists, Maurizio and Marco. They will be doing an article on the thru-walk for an Italian magazine. All 21 km of our hike today was in the Chouf Cedar Reserve.

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A good part of today’s hike was on a high ridge (1800 m. Elev.). It was amazing because we could see the plain of the Bekaa and Mt. Sheikh to the left and the Chouf landscape all the way to the Mediterranean with the tip of Beirut to the right.

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Spring is here! All the flowers are in bloom, including these gorgeous cherry trees.

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We reached the entrance to the reserve at around 4pm. After buying some cedar honey the bus took us down to the Boustani guesthouse in Barouk.

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Over the mountains to Tannourine

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Today was a really long day through the snow and I bearly have the energy to post! Sorry, it’s short I hope the extra pictures make up for it!

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As it is the weekend, a lively group of twelve  joined last night. This included video journalist Dana Smillie, who is doing a segment on the thru walk for Time.com! I’ll link it when it’s online.
It takes us around 3 hrs. to the cedar reserve of Tannourine.

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Marie (who was with us last week) has treated to a spread of fresh fruit and veggies.  The rangers have brought us a saj for lunch and everybody pitches in making bread.

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