An 18-year-old woman from Illinois became the youngest American woman to win a Mr. Everest award when she reached the top of the 29,032-foot mountain in Nepal on Thursday morning.
Lucy Westlake, an avid mountaineer since she was seven years old, reached the world’s highest mountain at 05:40 local time after 26 days of hard climbing.
Sherpa broke the record on May 12 with the help of thousands of dollars in donations from Mingma and GoFundMe.
“It was absolutely amazing,” she said… She described the moment she reached her peak on this morning’s show. “I couldn’t imagine being on top, being on top of the world. For example, I looked down and there is no one else – there is nothing higher.’
Lucy Westlake of Naperville, 18, became the youngest Roman-American to reach the summit of Everest.
He reached the top of the 29,032-foot mountain in Nepal at 05:40 local time on 12 May.
“It was absolutely unbelievable,” she said on the Today show, describing her peak moment.
Westlake has been free to climb since graduating a semester ago He graduated from Naperville North High in December and skipped prom and prom to go mountaineering.
He began his perilous journey from Everest on April 18 and reached the Khumbu Ice Falls, a 1.62-mile continuously moving glacier considered one of the most dangerous parts of the ascent.
On Wednesday night, he and his Sherpa, who has climbed Everest 16 times, started the final lunge.
“It seemed really impossible to view the summit from Camp 4 the day before we went to the summit, but that night we started the climb at 9 PM and after 8 and a half hours we did it!!!” Westlake wrote on Instagram.
“I thought I was going to cry at the top. But I actually cried an hour before the peak… I knew I was going to fix it,” she admitted on the Today show.
The summit of Everest can cost people between $30,000 and $160,000.
‘I really have a passion for the global water crisis, so I hope to get attention and money for it with my escalation. “This is one of my biggest motivations,” he said.
“I thought I was going to cry at the top. But I actually cried an hour before the peak… I knew I would make him forgive,” she admitted to the Today show.
Westlake admitted that his family was nervous about the walk, but said they “trusted him too much”.
In fact, he did most of his climbing with his father, who sparked his interest in the hobby when he was just seven years old.
Being with him wasn’t the hardest part of climbing Everest, but luckily he had Mingma.
“I love my Sherpa. “He was great, he was my dad’s backup,” he said.
He also knew he had the support of friends and family who donated for his GoFundMe escalation. Climbing Everest is expensive, costing an average of $45,000, but can cost people between $30,000 and $160,000.
Westlake’s passion for mountaineering adventure began at a young age when he and his father climbed Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest point, in 2011.
The hardest thing about climbing Everest was that her father wasn’t around, but luckily she had Mingma, her sherpa.
At 17, Westlake became the youngest woman to climb the highest peaks in all 50 US states.
He started climbing mountains with his father at the age of seven and graduated from high school one semester before he could do this climb.
“I learned something called the high point, which is to climb the highest mountain in a state, or to get to the highest point because some have no mountain,” he said. WLS in April.
My dad and I started climbing to the top when we were 7 years old. We’ve been climbing together ever since.’
She continued to reach the highest highs and in 2016, at age 12, became the youngest woman to climb the 48 lowest in the state.
At the age of 17 in 2021, she became the youngest woman to climb all 50 major events in the US.
His next goal is to complete the Explorer’s Grand Slam, which involves climbing each continent’s highest point, as well as the north and south poles.
He reached the summit of Everest in Asia, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Denali in North America, Aconcagua in South America, Kosciuszko in Australia and Elbrus in Europe.
His next goal is to complete the Explorer’s Grand Slam, which involves climbing each continent’s highest point, as well as the north and south poles.
He reached the summit of Everest in Asia, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Denali in North America, Aconcagua in South America, Kosciuszko in Australia and Elbrus in Europe.
The north and south poles, the Vinson massif in Antarctica, and the Carstensz pyramid in Indonesia remained.
“I’ve always been adventurous and I’ve always loved mountains,” he told Today.
“But as mountains got bigger and harder, I really needed to find a deeper motivation to want them again. And that really just pushes my limits. I just want to see how far my body and mind can go. And I hope to inspire others to do the same.
‘I really have a passion for the global water crisis, so with my escalation I hope to gain attention and money for it. This is one of my biggest motivations,” he added.
Westlak also wants to inspire more women to climb. Consider that one of the reasons many don’t is that the idea of carrying a 40lb backpack and towing a 60lb sled is intimidating.
“I’ve always been adventurous and I’ve always loved mountains,” he said.
Westlak also wants to inspire more women to climb. Consider that one of the reasons many don’t is that the idea of carrying a 40lb backpack and towing a 60lb sled is intimidating.
“Mountain climbing is a sport dominated by men twice my age and who can easily carry 75-pound equipment,” he wrote on GoFundMe. “And I am ready to fight to change that. To show this generation of girls that we belong in the mountains.
“Of course it’s challenging, but being in the mountains is an absolutely incredible experience that everyone should dream of and desire,” he told the Chicago Tribune.
“You don’t have to weigh 200 pounds or be six feet tall to climb these mountains.”
But he won’t be rising full-time in the future. He enrolls at USC as a freshman in the fall, where he joins the track and field team as a cross country runner.
Source: Daily Mail
