Some parents are in it for the spolight. That being said, I saw an interview of the father/son/daughter who summited Everest (13 yo) on Foxnews, and he apparently was a dedicated climber and the father seemed down to earth.
Not everyone is loking to grab the spotlight as many here assume.
“summitted”
What’s wrong with the perfectly good (equally accurate, and shorter, therefore better) “climbed”?