Mountaineering: Someone Get the Bouncers
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Outside magazine, October 1995
Mountaineering: Someone Get the Bouncers For better or for worse, 12-year-old Merrick Johnston is the youngest person ever to have reached the summit of Mount McKinley. The Anchorage sixth-grader and her mother, Jennifer Johnston, summited on June 23, becoming the first recorded mother-daughter team to do so. The younger Johnston’s widely publicized achievement one-upped that of the Tiffany Hanson, a Talkeetna |