BEIJING – A 13-YEAR-OLD American boy
has become the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount
Everest.
A spokesman for Jordan Romero says
the boy’s team called by satellite phone from the summit of the
world’s highest peak on Saturday.
The previous record for the youngest
climber to scale Everest had been held by Temba Tsheri of Nepal. He
reached the peak at age 16.
Romero was climbing Everest with a
team including his father and three Sherpa guides. He left for the
peak from the base camp on the Chinese side of the mountain.
Romero has been on a quest to climb
the highest peaks on all seven continents.
