NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A 12-year-old Naperville resident is the youngest girl to climb to the highest point in each of the lower 48 states.
The Daily Herald reports that the Highpointers Club, a membership organization for hikers climbing the highest peaks in each state, confirmed Lucy Westlake’s record. It says the previous record was set by a 17-year-old girl in 2011.
Lucy’s first climb was on a more than 1,300-foot mountain in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula near her family’s cabin. She ran, climbed and explored on the 6-kilometer route.
When Lucy was 7 and living in Kentucky in 2011, her family climbed the state’s highest location, the more than 4,100-foot Black Mountain. The next year, she tackled 13 more climbs.
She broke the record after climbing Kings Peak in Utah this year. Lucy’s next goal is Mount Denali in Alaska.
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