Conor Knighton: Leave Only Footprints

Conor Knighton is a national correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning—the country’s #1 morning news show—and the author of The New York Times Bestseller Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park. His reports for CBS Sunday Morning have covered everything from the Scandinavian obsession with salty licorice to what it’s like to wake up on Wake Island, one of America’s most remote military bases. He’s the creator and producer of “On the Trail,” a series about the U.S. national parks, and “Island Hopping,” a series of segments set on islands across the world, from St. Pierre to the Seychelles. Conor has won five Emmy Awards® as part of the Sunday Morning team. His feature reporting has also earned a National Headliner Award and an LA Press Club Award.