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Retired orthodontist Dr. Fred Distelhorst, age 88, is the oldest person to summit Mount Kilimanjaro.
“It wasn’t such a big deal. I was surprised it wasn’t harder,” he said.
It was his granddaughter’s idea. His granddaughter, Ellen Edgerton, was already in Tanzania volunteering with Bob Bandoni’s Shoulder to Shoulder program. He got an email from her saying, “I just signed you up to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.”
Distelhorst stays fit. He rides his bike. He still skis more than 100 days a year.
He took a warmup stroll up Quandary Peak near Breckenridge and jumped on a plane to Dallas, another to London, another to Nairobi and flew to the mountain the next day with his granddaughter. He reached the summit on July 20.
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