During a conversation with my grandma recently, she said that she could die happy because she's accomplished everything she's wanted to accomplish in life.
Then she paused briefly... and added "although I would have liked to climb a mountain..."
She's 75 and can move about unassisted although she is a little overweight. Her main physical activity is work at a retail store and gardening. Is there any "mountain" (it could honestly be a glorified hill), preferably within the United States, that I could take my granny up on a hike and she would be able to handle it?
Obviously nothing that requires technical skill or equipment... Also I know nothing of climbing hills or mountains, never done it, so if you have advice, please lay it on me.
I don’t even think your grandma can walk a mile let alone uphill. Mountains are no fricking joke, and neither is hiking.
The fact you know nothing about it concerns me you’ll be another of those morons that just die.
Start off by searching up the 10 essentials.
she has no problem walking 10 miles in a day at Disney world. Uphill could be a problem tho for sure.
She owned and sold a business, is loaded, and works retail now for fun/out of boredom
If your family is loaded you should take a trip to Switzerland and take a cable car to the Klein Matterhorn (3883 m) or take the train all the way up the Jungfraujoch (3463 m). Pic related is the Jungfraujoch.
Does she want to hike a mountain or climb one? Pretty big distinction. Because there are all kinds of short hikes to the top of small mountains. Does it need to be in the snow or what?
mt everest
its been climbed by an 80 year old, a 76 year old, a 73 year old, and a double leg amputee. i think granny's got this. she sounds like a badass.
>and a double leg amputee
damn did he handstand the whole way or what
>don’t even think your grandma can walk a mile let alone uphill. Mountains are no fricking joke, and neither is hiking.
spoken like a true american who never left the suburbs
Also what the frick has she accomplished if she works at a fricking retail store? How can she even afford to live with a wage that low?
My grandmother is in her 80s and I took her for a picnic up Mt Kosciuszko a couple of years ago.
On one hand, it's a glorified hill, on the other hand, she can now say she scaled the highest mountain in Australia.
Mt. Whitney maybe?
If its under 14,000 feet then its just a hill
just drive up you dumb Black person
you don't even go outdoors in the first place otherwise you wouldn't ask such a stupid question
Super oldies cruise Tumamoc in Tucson with their canes and stuff. There's one old guy with a mohawk who does it regularly, shuffling super slow. Lots of cities have small mountains like this. Another one I've been up many times is Kennesaw Mountain in GA.
At this point she might as well go straight for K2. YOLO.
There’s a place that’s 45 minutes outside of Las Vegas called Turtlehead Peak Thats a pretty easy climb. Its basically just a hike up the mountain. Might be a little bit tough for an old person though, but it’s probably as easy as it’s going to get for a mountain
Every year, hundreds of out-of-shape flatlanders trudge their asses up Long's Peak and somehow make it back down safely. Blows my mind when I see it.
just get her in a cablecar
Where do you live and what is your definition of a "climb"?
The easiest "mountain" that I've ever gone up excluding drive ups: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/new-york/belfrey-mountain
I would recommend stone mountain in Georgia.
Just a big hill with confederates carved in the side, it's a pretty easy walk my 73 year old grandma made it up. View from the top is decent.
You can also take a cable car down if you are tired