{"id":17068,"date":"2013-11-19T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/91-year-old-texan-becomes-oldest-zipper-and-takes-to-the-trees-with-queenstowns-ziptrek-ecotours\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:29:00","slug":"91-year-old-texan-becomes-oldest-zipper-and-takes-to-the-trees-with-queenstowns-ziptrek-ecotours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/11\/91-year-old-texan-becomes-oldest-zipper-and-takes-to-the-trees-with-queenstowns-ziptrek-ecotours\/","title":{"rendered":"91-year-old Texan becomes oldest zipper and takes to the trees with Queenstown\u2019s Ziptrek Ecotours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>An adventurous 91-year-old Texan man became the oldest \u2018zipper\u2019 in New Zealand yesterday\u00a0<\/span><b>(Sunday November 17)<\/b><span>when he completed Ziptrek Ecotours\u2019\u00a0Moa 4-Line tour\u00a0in Queenstown.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span>The award-winning tourism company hosted Loren Selleck from Fort Worth in Texas who was accompanied by his 66-year-old daughter Karin Selleck, also from Texas.\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ziptrek Ecotours' group shot_media\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ziptrek-Ecotours-group-shot_media-300x200.jpg\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ziptrek-Ecotours-group-shot_media-300x200.jpg\" title=\"Guide Jakub Jezbera with guests (left to right in order), April Werne, Aimee Werne, Patrick Werne, Robert Werne, Karin Selleck, Loren Selleck, Kelly Mateljan, Melissa Smith, Sharmin Lutfi, Ben Clark and guide Connie Gardiner.\" width=\"270\">\n<\/div>\n<div><span>The adventurous pair were among eight other \u2018zippers\u2019 to take part in the thrilling \u201cmulti-generational\u201d tour yesterday which included children as young as eight &#8211; an age range of 83 years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Mr Selleck is the oldest \u2018zipper\u2019 to complete the Ziptrek Ecotours course since the company\u2019s inception four years ago.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span>Ziptrek Ecotours Sales and Marketing Manager Nicky Busst said the team was \u201cthrilled\u201d to see such\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ziptrek Ecotours' oldest zipper Loren Selleck_media\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ziptrek-Ecotours-oldest-zipper-Loren-Selleck_media-300x200.jpg\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ziptrek-Ecotours-oldest-zipper-Loren-Selleck_media-300x200.jpg\" width=\"240\"><span>a varied group enjoying the Ziptrek experience.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u201cIt really shows the diversity of our tours. They\u2019re suitable for everyone, no matter their age or ability,\u201d said Mrs Busst.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span>\u201cWe\u2019ve had people of all ages zipping in the past. Yesterday it was really great to see such a diverse group of people taking part in the one trip. It really sums up what Ziptrek Ecotours is all about.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ziptrek Ecotours' oldest Zipper with guides_media\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ziptrek-Ecotours-oldest-Zipper-with-guides_media-300x200.jpg\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ziptrek-Ecotours-oldest-Zipper-with-guides_media-300x200.jpg\" title=\"(left to right): Guide Jakub Jezbera with guests Loren Selleck and daughter Karin Selleck and Guide Connie Gardiner.\" width=\"270\">\n<\/div>\n<div><span>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty phenomenal to see someone aged 91 living life to its fullest, embracing it and still creating memories,\u201d Mrs Busst said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Completing the course \u201cwith absolute ease\u201d Mr Selleck praised the Ziptrek staff for making the experience an enjoyable and memorable part of his New Zealand holiday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>&#8220;The guides are outstanding as is the lady in the sales office. At 91 years old I\u2019m qualified to make statements like that about people,\u201d he laughed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u201cIt was fantastic; the entire journey, experience and atmosphere is very, very attractive.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An adventurous 91-year-old Texan man became the oldest \u2018zipper\u2019 in New Zealand yesterday\u00a0(Sunday November 17)when he completed Ziptrek Ecotours\u2019\u00a0Moa 4-Line tour\u00a0in Queenstown. The award-winning tourism company hosted Loren Selleck from Fort Worth in Texas who was accompanied by his 66-year-old daughter Karin Selleck, also from Texas.\u00a0 The adventurous pair were among eight other \u2018zippers\u2019 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}