YOUNG AMERICAN BOY CLIMBS EVEREST

22.05.2010 [12:06]
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Baku, May 22 (AZERTAC). A 13-year-old American boy became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, breaking the former record as part of his quest to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents.

A spokesman for Jordan Romero said the boy`s team called him by satellite phone from the summit of the world`s highest mountain, 29,035 feet above sea level.

Jordan climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania aged 10 and wants to be the youngest person to climb the highest mountains on seven continents.

His father and stepmother have been with him on all his mountain climbs.

YOUNG AMERICAN BOY CLIMBS EVEREST

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