13 Year-Old American Boy Climbs Mount Everest

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A 13-year-old American boy has become the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, his family says.

Jordan Romero, from California, telephoned his mother from the peak of the world’s highest mountain, she said.

“Mom, I’m calling you from the top of the world,” Leigh Anne Drake quoted her son as saying.

He was climbing with his father and three Sherpa guides. The previous record was held by a Nepalese boy of 16.

The 13-year-old has now conquered the highest mountains on six of the world’s seven continents.

JORDAN’S CONQUESTS

  • Africa – Kilimanjaro: 2006
  • Europe – Elbrus: 2007
  • South America – Aconcagua: 2007
  • North America – Denali: 2008
  • Oceania – Carstensz Pyramid: 2009
  • Asia – Everest: 2010

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13 years ago

Zelda? F. Scott’s wife?
Very very impressive young man.

Bee
13 years ago

This piques my interest, because high mountain climbing is an interest of mine. Not that I actually want to climb a mountain, mind you, I just like to read about it.

This kid is mighty impressive – but I have to wonder if his parents have more money than brains. People die regularly trying to scale these mountains, as evidenced by the Sherpa mission going on right now to clear some of the everest routes of 80 years worth of dead bodies and discarded oxygen cylinders and candy-bar wrappers.

13 years ago

I would’ve done this too, but I really had to finish The Legend of Zelda.

SJ
Reply to  Randal Graves
13 years ago

I’m older, it was Pitfall II on the Colecovision for me.

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