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Look who made it to the top of Kilimanjaro this week!
77-
January 8th 2008.
The Oakville Beaver
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While she is still awaiting
confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records that she has, in fact, broken the
record (an insitution which, as regular readers will know, I don't put a great deal
of store by, as they've consistently ignored justifiable and verifiable claims from
people claiming to be the oldest person to scale the mountain, and who also refused
to verify Bern Goosen's first wheelchair climb to the summit), Ms Windh claims that
she didn't do it for the record in any case. She just fancied a challenge.
And the
reason why she has waited until her 78th year before accepting the challenge? Well
Ms Windh puts it down to the fact that, up until the break-
To train for the climb, Ann visited a gym religiously three times a week, and climbed
the steps of her 11th story building twice a day.
We do, of course, congratulate
Ann on her remarkable achievement.