The Appalachian Trail Author:Ronald M. Fisher "At journey's end, author Ronald M. Fisher stands on the summit of Mount Katahdin, Maine. Born and educated in Iowa, Fisher has been a memeber of the Special Publications staff since 1966. His contributions have included chapters in the National Geographic books Those Inventive Americans and As We Live and Breathe. Dick Durrance II, from Aspe... more »n Colorado, photographed a Danube canoe trip for GEOGRAPHIC while still in college. A magazine staff photographer since 1969, he has covered Rumania, Leningrad, and Zululand; his first Special Publications assignment was In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark. In 1971 Durrance won the White House News Photographers Association' Photographer of the Year award - and married Jill Richards of Minnesota."« less