{"id":4371,"date":"2014-10-13T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2014-10-11T15:52:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T21:52:26","slug":"robert-wheeler-breaks-kilimanjaro-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2014\/10\/13\/robert-wheeler-breaks-kilimanjaro-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Wheeler Breaks Kilimanjaro World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert J. Wheeler is the oldest person in the world to <a title=\"Climb Kilimanjaro\" href=\"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/tanzania\/kilimanjaro\/\">climb to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro<\/a>.\u00a0 His feat was fully documented and is expected to be entered successfully into Guinness World Records(TM).\u00a0 On October 2, 2014, Wheeler, who is over 85 and a half years old, summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa&#8217;s highest peak and the world&#8217;s highest freestanding mountain (19,340 feet tall) on the <a title=\"Marangu Route\" href=\"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/tanzania\/kilimanjaro\/overview.php?trip=5_day__Marangu_Route\">Marangu Route<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cU3-002mhJo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adventureswithinreach\/sets\/72157648635766171\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2014\/10\/13\/robert-wheeler-breaks-kilimanjaro-world-record\/wheeler-photos\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-photos.jpg?fit=351%2C290&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"351,290\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"wheeler-photos\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-photos.jpg?fit=351%2C290&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4372 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-photos.jpg?resize=300%2C247\" alt=\"wheeler-photos\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-photos.jpg?resize=300%2C247&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-photos.jpg?w=351&amp;ssl=1 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/tanzania\/kilimanjaro\/map.html?tripid=MKI02-14-004\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4373\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2014\/10\/13\/robert-wheeler-breaks-kilimanjaro-world-record\/wheeler-trek-traka\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-trek-traka.jpg?fit=482%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"482,346\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"wheeler-trek-traka\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-trek-traka.jpg?fit=482%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4373\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-trek-traka.jpg?resize=300%2C215\" alt=\"wheeler-trek-traka\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-trek-traka.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wheeler-trek-traka.jpg?w=482&amp;ssl=1 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prleap.com\/pr\/229346\/85-year-old-man-oldest-to-summit-mt-kilimanjaro\">See Full Press Release &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert J. Wheeler is the oldest person in the world to climb to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro.\u00a0 His feat was fully documented and is expected to be entered successfully into Guinness World Records(TM).\u00a0 On October 2, 2014, Wheeler, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2014\/10\/13\/robert-wheeler-breaks-kilimanjaro-world-record\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Robert Wheeler Breaks Kilimanjaro World Record http:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-18v","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,17,23],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro","category-news","category-tanzania","tag-climb-kilimanjaro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-18v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/summit-youtube.jpg?fit=2000%2C1276&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}