At 13 years old, Jordan Romero became the youngest ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
The eight-grader climber reached the top of Mt. Everest today, together with his father and three Sherpa guides. Jordan Romero is now the youngest ever to reach the the 29,035-foot summit.
The previous record for the youngest climber to scale Everest had been held by Nepal’s Temba Tsheri. He reached the summit at the age of 16.
Romero’s group left for the peak from the base camp on the Chinese side of the mountain. They climbed the northern route out of Tibet and still have to make the trek down the mountain, which is a dangerous route that killed climbers each year.
Jordan Romero has been on a quest to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents. Today he accomplished it all by climbing Mt. Everest. Jordan climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa when he was 10 years old and Carstensz Pyramid (Oceana) on Sept. 1, 2009.
“Every step I take is finally toward the biggest goal of my life, to stand on top of the world,” Jordan said on his blog earlier.
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