An expert’s guide to Mount Marathon

Looking up from downtown Seward, Mount Marathon looks pretty daunting, and the people who run up this mountain will tell you — it is.
Flip Foldager knows the mountain about as well as anyone can. The 60-year-old Seward resident has climbed it since he was a kid.
“Hundreds of times,” he said. “Maybe even approaching a thousand. You need to come here, you need to train, you need to know what you are doing.”
Flip Foldager prepares to descend from the summit of Mount Ma