{"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-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" 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-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" 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_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/summit-youtube.jpg?fit=2000%2C1276&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-18v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_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}]}}