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15-year-old Jesse Zurinskas attempted to become the youngest person to complete the WURL.

The Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup is a 35-mile hike over 21 peaks in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Zurinskas' dad, brother and friends joined him at various points on the grueling route.

Last year, 15-year-old Jesse Zurinskas and his dad, Chad, started what’s commonly known in the hiking and mountaineering communities as “bagging” peaks.

Mount Olympus, a quad-wrenching climb that gains 4,800 feet in elevation over 3.3 miles on the east side of the Salt Lake Valley, came first. A number of other hikes followed, including Mount Timpanogos, Mount Nebo, Lone Peak and King’s Peak, Utah’s highest at 13,527 feet.

They also tackled some more technical hikes like Geurt’s Ridge and Mount Superior t

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