12-Year-Old Matt Moniz Completes in 43 days, 3 hours, 51 minutes and 9 seconds

Posted on 7/17/2010 by

12-year-old Matt Moniz has completed on Mauna Kea hiking 50 summits in 43 days, 3 hours, 51 minutes and 9 seconds.

He set out to do 50 summits in 50 days or less. He is doing this before entering the seventh grade in his home of Boulder, Colorado this fall. He only has Mauna Kea left.

*Denver Channel 7 interview
*Twitter account
*Climb7.com
*Outside Magazine interview

Here’s an interview when he did the Colorado 14ers at age 11.

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2 Responses to 12-Year-Old Matt Moniz Completes in 43 days, 3 hours, 51 minutes and 9 seconds

  1. Mark Styczynski says:
    7/15/2010 at 2:53 pm

    Matt just posted on Twitter that Granite Peak is in the bag (Day 41). Only Mauna Kea remains.

  2. Will says:
    8/5/2010 at 6:10 pm

    this is the coolest kid (and dad) ever. what a way to spend the summer…

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