{"id":1662,"date":"2015-12-04T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:50:53","slug":"climbing-mountains-86-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2015\/12\/04\/climbing-mountains-86-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Mountains @ 86 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/82243-oldest-woman-to-climb-mt-kilimanjaro?utm_source=email+marketing+Mailigen&amp;utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angela Vorobeva<\/a> recently became the oldest female to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania at the age of <strong>86 years<\/strong>. In her lifetime, Angela witnessed and survived of the notorious siege of Leningrad in 1944, during World War II. Though she lived a life of hardships and challenges, she never gave up on pursuing her childhood dreams of visiting the remotest parts of the world, insisting that age is not a barrier. On October 29, 2015 she conquered Africa\u2019s highest mountain \u2013 the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Click to see the momentous photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn2.24live.co\/images\/2015\/11\/12\/1447328706785905.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2.24live.co\/images\/2015\/11\/12\/1447328706785905.jpeg\" alt=\"Angela Vorobeva\" width=\"660\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Message is: Never give up \u2014 we can do hard &amp; holy things<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn2.24live.co\/images\/2015\/11\/12\/1447328706785905.jpeg\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Angela Vorobeva recently became the oldest female to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania at the age of 86 years. In her lifetime, Angela witnessed and survived of the notorious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200980],"tags":[125140,86832,161995,161650,86823,161651,161652],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-resources","tag-angela-vorobeva","tag-charlie-pruett","tag-older-adult-ministry-2","tag-pgc","tag-pruett-gerontology-center","tag-retiree-ministry","tag-senior-adult-ministry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001419,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1001419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}