A Salt Lake resident will be guiding First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on a hike in Morocco's mountains Sunday.
Ryan Russell, a graduate of the University of Utah in political science and Middle Eastern studies, has been serving as one of 130 Peace Corps volunteers in Morocco for more than a year, working to bring potable water from the source to rural households without contamination, by eliminating the open earth canals now in use.He has also implemented a program to distribute 10,000 fruit and forest trees to a community of 3,000 people.
Russell will show the first lady around the Atlas Mountain range during a one-hour hike.
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Clinton is currently on a 12-day vacation in North Africa with her daughter, Chelsea.