What It’s Like to Set Everest + Highpointing Records as a Teenager with Mountaineer Lucy Westlake

Lucy Westlake started mountaineering at 7 years old through a highpointing project. In 2021, she set the record as the youngest person to summit the highest points in all 52 United States, including Denali. At 18, she set a record as the youngest American woman to climb Mount Everest (at the time).

Angie and Lucy talk about:

• Being a competitive athlete starting in elementary school
• Transitioning from running to mountaineering through highpointing
• Highs (and lows) of climbing the high points of the USA
• Behind the scenes of mountaineering and setting records
• What it’s like when other people break your records
• Why she decided to put aside a Seven Summits and Explorers Grand Slam goal
• Lucy’s research on glaciers in college while being a mountain guide
• The impact of ageism, mentorship, and women in mountaineering

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Check out these resources:

• 📱 ⁠Lucy on IG⁠
• ➡️ The Cairn Project on IG
• ✨ The Cairn Project's newsletter

• 🥾 ⁠Become a Trailblazer⁠
• 📅 ⁠Summit Scholarship Foundation

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Hosted by Angie Marie Lake and edited by Alyson Castonguay.