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When she reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, 86-year-old Angela Vorobyova danced joyously with her guide. Accompanied by her 62-year-old physicist daughter, Vera, and a group of guides, Vorobyova was thrilled to have set the world record as the oldest person ever to reach the 19,341-foot peak. But something else made the feat even sweeter. The retired Russian teacher had dedicated the climb to the memory of her older sister, Lida, who died of pneumonia at age 12 in 1935. She choose Oct. 29 to climb because it was her sister’s birthday. “Eighty years ago I made a promise to my sister Lida that I would travel for both of us,” Vorobyova told The Siberian Times. “I loved her.” It was an exhilarating but tough seven-day trek, she said. “It was extremely hard,” Vorobyova, speaking in Russian through a translator, told Russian TV network RT. On the first day, she said they hiked through a forest. On the second day, her ears started ringing. On the third day it became almost unbearable,