Boy, 12, Is Youngest to Climb Mt. McKinley

ANCHORAGE —  A 12-year-old boy whose father died climbing Mt. Everest has become the youngest person to conquer Mt. McKinley, North America’s tallest peak.

Taras Genet of Talkeetna, Alaska, reached the 20,320-foot summit on Friday with six members of his expedition, the National Park Service said Monday.

Genet is a son of Ray Genet, a mountain-climbing guide who died in October, 1979, trying to climb the world’s tallest peak. A few months before his death, Genet’s father led the previous record-holder, Mark Edwards, then 14, to McKinley’s summit.