Posted on 05/12/2022 10:04:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An 18-year-old Naperville has become the youngest American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Lucy Westlake posted on her Instagram Thursday morning to say she successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest at 5:40 a.m. Nepali time.
Before embarking on her climb, Lucy told ABC7 she hoped to inspire other young girls to pursue their own adventures.
Lucy Westlake is 18-years-old. She's aiming to be the youngest American woman to make the climb.
"I started climbing because my family is very adventurous. My life's mantra is 'limits are perceived,' so I love pushing myself to my very limit and discovering what my body and mind can do. So what better way to do it than climb the highest mountain in the world."
Prior to reaching the top of Mount Everest, the teen has already set records, becoming the youngest female to summit the 50 U.S. state highpoints last June.
Lucy Westlake is 18-years-old. She's aiming to be the youngest American woman to make the climb.
What an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations Lucy!
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It is similar to the fact that people who were born and have lived their life in the higher elevation of the Andes of Peru can not handle physical exercise at sea level. It could kill them.
I just watched a YouTube video last night about the first two guys that tried to summit the Eiger by going up the North Face. They died trying. It was eventually successfully climbed in 1938. This is the route made famous in the 1975 Clint Eastwood movie “The Eiger Sanction”. It is also where the clothing name comes from.
Actually, it used to be worse. They are limiting the amount of people on it now. They were not limiting the amount of climbers at one time.
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That looks more like an exercise in standing in line and doing as you are told than conquering a mountain.
What an amazing person. We need more like her.
There are two superb books on the history of the climbing of Mt Everest; “The Third Pole” and “Into the Silence”.
OMG another first. Was she also the first to give the ‘shaka’ sign on the way to the top?
Why wasn’t she black (or maybe she is) then we could have had screaming headlines for the whole of next week. parades, interviews, breathless discussion of Presidential asperations.
Sheesh! Enough already
IT TAKES MONEY!
They’re all waiting to use the one porta potty.
They climb from base camp 1 to base camp two several times. Then camp two to camp three. It takes weeks of that to get acclimated.
No matter who you are it’s a huge accomplishment.
Yes. Sir Edmund Hillary. Who Hillary Clinton was named after. She said so.
Five men men and one woman all at least 70 years of age have summited Everest. One of the men was nine months past his 80th birthday.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, noted cold weather expeditioner and cousin of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, summited Everest at the age of 76.
Fiennes also once removed multiple frostbitten fingertips from his left hand in his tool shed with a keyhole saw. It used to be a given that you shouldn’t attempt Everest unless you were willing to lose body parts to frostbite (just ask Reinhold Messner).
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