{"id":1040,"date":"2012-06-21T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T10:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T12:34:55","slug":"man-walks-mount-kilimanjaro-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/man-walks-mount-kilimanjaro-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Man walks up Mount Kilimanjaro on his hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p><center>[jwplayer XYzPuobs-S5EMYFqt]<em>Hats off&hellip;&hellip;..everybody clap your hands!<\/em> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 31px; float: none; height: 23px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/enigma-wp2\/img\/loading16.gif\" alt=\"\" data-original=\"http:\/\/valandre.com\/icon\/clap.gif\"><\/center>\n<blockquote><p>Mountaineering is a personal engagement between the climber and his mountain. Climbing up the Tanzanian volcano Mount Kilimanjaro, is not a big deal in the scale of climbing an 8000m peak. Just 5.895m&hellip;&hellip;yes just a &ldquo;small little 5.895m&rdquo;!<br>\nSpencer West (USA) confronted his mountain and summited it, in what simply deserves its place in the history of mountaineering: With no legs, Spencer wheel chaired some of the way and climbed where the wheel chair could not go&hellip;&hellip;on his hands. It takes determination and courage and a profound love for life to for fill such an achievement.<br>\nA BIG BIG Bravo Spencer&hellip;&hellip;Hats off!<br>\nlink: <a title=\"BBC\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/fwVxE\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-18508243<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[jwplayer XYzPuobs-S5EMYFqt]Hats off&hellip;&hellip;..everybody clap your hands! Mountaineering is a personal engagement between the climber and his mountain. Climbing up the Tanzanian volcano Mount Kilimanjaro, is not a big deal in the scale of climbing an 8000m peak. Just 5.895m&hellip;&hellip;yes just a &ldquo;small little 5.895m&rdquo;! Spencer West (USA) confronted his mountain and summited it, in what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[279,57,64,107,249,250],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletes","tag-athletes","tag-climb","tag-climbing","tag-expedition","tag-kilimanjaro","tag-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}