81-Year-Old Man Scales Mt. Rainier
A man scaled Mt. Rainier one day after his 81st birthday, becoming the oldest person known to have climbed the peak.
Jack Borgenicht of Long Valley, N.J., reached the 14,410-foot summit Aug. 30, on his third attempt to scale the peak, said Jennifer Herzig of Rainier Mountaineering Inc.
Borgenicht ran out of energy on his first attempt last summer, and was beaten back by bad weather three weeks ago, Herzig said.
The oldest person to climb the mountain had been Julius Boehm, an Issaquah chocolate maker, who was 80 when he reached the summit in 1978.
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