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| May 22, 2010 | 13-year-old American boy becomes youngest person to scale Mount Everest | | Beijing: A 13-year-old American boy, Jordan Romero, has become the youngest person to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak. A spokesman for Romero's climbing team, confirmed that
the boy achieved the 29,035-foot summit on Saturday. Previously the youngest climber
to scale Mount Everest had been Nepal's Temba Tsheri, who accomplished the feat
on May 23, 2001, at the age of 16 years. Bailey also said that Romero, an eighth-grader
from Big Bear Lake, California, was climbing with his father Paul, Paul's girlfriend,
Karen Lundgren, and three Sherpa porters. Romero, who has been on a quest to climb
the highest peaks on all seven continents, had left for the peak from the base
camp on the Chinese side of the mountain, Fox News reports. He now needs to bag
Mount Vinson in Antarctica to complete the Seven Summits, or the tallest peak
on each continent. | |
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