Posted on 03/25/2023 8:01:30 AM PDT by libh8er
Edited on 03/25/2023 1:19:15 PM PDT by Chris Robinson. [history]
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. – You are only as old as you think you are.
Just ask the active 91-year-old Colorado man who now holds a world record as the oldest person to cross the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim on foot.
John Jepkema took off on the 5-day trek on Nov. 7, 2019, with his other senior friends and was recently acknowledged by Guinness World Records.
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If he collapses at the bottom who pays for the Med-A-Vac?
Like the 74-year old who proudly went out and got her degree. What’s next medical school? Who subsidized it?
WOW. Age is just a number in his case
That Canyon hike ain’t no walk in the park! :^)
I did it with a 40lb pack. Took me hours to get up the Bright Angel from Indian Gardens.
I’m be always had the crazy idea if I trained for 6 months I would like to try hiking the Appalachian trail, approximately 2200 miles from North Georgia to Maine, I would be in my mid-60s
How do you get across the river?
There wasn’t a medevac. He made it
Thanks for adding cheer to thus inspirational story.
There are bridges at the bottom.
With similar training Mr. MERCAT (age 80) could do that too.
We went to visit our daughter and her fiancé in Oregon last September. They took us to Smith Rock State Park near Redmond, I guess. We encountered many older-than-us folks in pretty good shape on that hike. It gave me encouragement to keep up the daily walking. On my bucket list is to take my dear Mr. FF to the Grand Canyon. He’s only seen it from an airplane.
2,200 miles! WOW. That’s a wonderful aspiration.
I bet it would be gorgeous.
This guy ain’t human.
He swam. Just to prove he was a man. Alabama.
I'm all for encouraging and recognizing the feat.
A few weeks back, I happened to be at the Bright Angel trailhead. It was clearly iced over in places, muddy in others. Lacking crampons, I stayed on the rim trail.
4000’
When you get up in your senior years, even when you are in fairly good shape, the balance and occasional disorientation become the big OH-OH moments.
If I trained properly I wouldn’t mind sleeping outdoors for much of that time my biggest fear would be my body failing me with a an injury or getting really sick simply getting tired and being miserable occasionally wouldn’t get me to quit and could my body get fit enough to complete the hike
91 years old that’s very impressive. Almost hard to believe.
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