Other hikers congratulated Bryce as he made his way down Mount Haystack, his last peak, and his father was understandably proud.

“On the way down, Dad kept making me let him take pictures of me. I was like, ‘Come on!’” Bryce said.

Laurie, Bryce’s mother, said she was going through her son’s school papers and found his New Year’s resolution, in which he said he would like to complete his mission of scaling all the high peaks. She had no idea he would do it, nor that he’d finish in such a short amount of time.

“It was kind of surprising as he was progressing to see this coming out, this drive and ambition,” Laurie said. “It got bigger and bigger the more peaks he had behind him and the closer he got to achieving the 46.”

To commemorate Bryce’s success, Todd compiled photos of each climb into a hardcover book.

Lee Nesbitt, who with his wife, Siobhan, are the Adirondack 46er co-historians, said he has not yet seen the forms Bryce sent in but he has been in contact with Laurie about them. Nesbitt was set to pick up the mail on a recent day but his wife went into the hospital to deliver their baby girl.