Good News Sunday: Naperville teen is youngest female to climb 50 state high points Naperville resident Lucy Westlake, 17, during her climbing trip to Denali in Alaska with her father, Rodney. Courtesy of Westlake family
Posted7/18/2021 7:30 AM
This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald:
For 17 days, Lucy Westlake and her father, Rodney, climbed until there was nothing but sky above them.
The 17-year-old mountaineer had gotten so used to keeping her eye on the path ahead, to always anticipating her next move and carefully calculating each step, that she half expected to look up and see more icy terrain.
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