Who is the oldest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro?

The oldest woman to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is Anne Lorimor who reached Uhuru Peak at 3.14 p.m. local time on 18 July 2019. Anne lorimor who aged 89 years. Lorimor and seven others set out on 12 July and scaled Kilimanjaro on the Rongai Route. The Rongai route is the only route that approaches the mountain from the north. Elibahati Mamuya was a guide of Anne Lorimar. The group returned on the Marangu Route. The round trip from base to summit to base took nine days. Lorimor completed the climb unassisted, with no oxygen or artificial aids.

The Great grandmother from Arizona, USA, had summit Kilimanjaro in her 80 years-old, having already scaled Africa's tallest mountain when she was 85. Angela Vorobeva Russia women who reached the top of mount Kilimanjaro aged 86 years on 29 October 2015. Dr Robert J Wheeler, aged 85 years and 201 days, has recently become the oldest person to climb Kilimanjaro in northeastern Tanzania on 2 October 2014.

Bob Wheeler makes the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person to climb Kilimanjaro. Even though the Kilimanjaro is highest mountain in Africa but It just goes to show that Kilimanjaro can be climbed by people of all ages including youngest peoples. He reached the top of the 19,340 foot mountain on October 2, 2014, along with his son, Jack. Kilimanjaro, located in Tanzania, is the highest peak on the African continent and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world. It took him five days to make the trek “I wanted to demonstrate that when elderly, frail, tired, worn out people get to this stage of life, they don’t have to be couch potatoes. They can get out and do something that’s active, like, say climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.” bob said.

Wheeler has also climbed Mt. Fuji in Japan and Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina. He published a book on mountain climbing in 2010. Anne Lorimor, 89, another Oldest Person to Climb Kilimanjaro. Arizona great-grandmother, Anne Lorimor, is the oldest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet), aged 89. This is the record that has changed hands most frequently over the past few years. In July 2019 Anne Lorimor, from Phoenix, Arizona, reached the summit aged 89. The four years earlier, in August 2015, she had climbed with her niece and nephew to the summit aged 85. Back then, Anne’s climb had earned her the record for the oldest woman to reach the top.

But on October 29th of that year, Russian octogenarian Angela Vorobeva took the popular Machame Route to the top aged 86 years, 267 days. MsVorobeva has faced some toughest challenge. MsVorobeva held the title of the oldest person to climb to the top until July 20th 2017. Dr Fred Distelhorst, a retired orthodontist from Vail, Colorado, reached the summit at the age of 88. Fred held the record for two years until Anne, spurred on by the fact that she’d lost her record, launched her latest record-breaking expedition. Farmer Richard By early from Washington, USA, who in October 2011 reached the summit of Africa’s highest mountain at the old age of 84 years. and who in turn had eclipsed.

George Solt, a retired professor from Olney, Buckinghamshire, who the previous summer had summited at the age of 82. Canadian Esther Kafer, who completed the climb with her husband in 2012. She was 84 and her husband was 85. However, Anne Lorimor from Arizona is waiting to be confirmed as the new record holder both for women and men, having recently completed the climb just days before her 86th Birthday. The current fastest combined ascent and descent time record is held by the Swiss-Ecuadorian Karl Egloff, who completed a run up the Umbwe Route and descent via Mweka in just 6 hours, 56 minutes and 24 seconds in August 2014, beating Jornet’s combined time of 7 hours 14 minutes.

On 27 July 2015 Anne Marie Flammersfeld, a 73-year-old German who living in St. Moritz , Switzerland, set a record for the fastest ascent and descent by a woman on Kilimanjaro, climbing to the summit via the Umbwe Route in 8h32min. She then turned round and made it back to Mweka gate for a total time on the mountain of 12h58min.

Another oldest person was Fred distelhorst from U.S.A on 21 January 1929 who reached the summit via rongai route at 9:33 am. Local time on July 2017aged 88 year. He made the climb as part of a group including his granddaughter Ellen Edgerton and four local guides. Fred made use of supplementary oxygen for the final stage the ascent. The entire expedition took six days, four days to ascent and two days to descent. Vanessa .o. Brien from U.S.A on December 1964 who reached the top of the among of the highest mountain in the world and first highest mountain in Africa 28 July 2017 at the age of 52 years old.

Older climbers are just as likely to get to the top of Kilimanjaro as those of any other age group. Also older climbers tend to take longer to get to the summit. This is depending on the tour operator on how they organized their trek. There should be one licensed guide for every two climbers. It is advised to go slowly when going up Kilimanjaro, to give their body time to acclimatize

What are importance things to do in order to achieve to climb Kilimanjaro

a. Make sure that your body has enough exercise of climbing Kilimanjaro Exercise is to determine whether you can trek and camp over the course of several days. This is the best way to achieve because you have experience about what you are doing. However you should do this is to undertake a trek in your own country before come in Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro. If you can find somewhere to trek that is at altitude then so much the better.

b. Try to involve with group trek You are advised to trek in joining group don’t afraid to interact with different people on your travelling even if you are travelling alone. In a group there should be two guides to only one climber. You as a guide you should trek slowly when you trekking with order person who has more than fifty years.

c. Make sure that you know your trekking distance Your distance will make you to never give up about continuing trekking The distance you cover each day increasing your ability of acclimatize and you should start early your trip after one camp to another. It does not matter how much you trek slowly but you will be able to achieve to summit. Will make you more confident about the climb.

d. Make sure that you do checkup before climbing or trekking The better health will makes you to achieve your goal of reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro. Because if you are sick either you have heart disease or pressure you cannot able to achieve because of low acclimatize on low oxygen temperature. So you are advised to make sure that you meet your doctor to check if you are qualified to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Visiting him will make you more confident about the climb.

e. Tell your guide about any your medical condition Your Medication will help you on Mount Kilimanjaro when you have bad condition which may happens according to your disease. You are required to take your medicine on time arranged by your doctor in order to reduce the risk of being in bad condition. You should give your guide or leader in a group of climbing any information regarding your health may help them to make an informed judgment that might just save your life.