Dr. Fred Distelhorst, an 88-year-old retired orthodontist has become the oldest person to climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Distelhorst, from Vail, Colorado, summited Mount Kilimanjaro with his granddaughter, Ellen Edgerton, who was already in Tanzania volunteering. Ellen was volunteering with Bob Bandoni’s Shoulder to Shoulder program when she emailed her grandfather saying “I just signed you up to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.”
According to Vail Daily, Edgerton, who still stays fit by riding his bike and skiing more than 100 days a year, took a warmup stroll up Quandary Peak near Breckenridge before hopping on a plane to Dallas, then to London, and then another to Nairobi. The next day, he flew to Kilimanjaro with his granddaughter.
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