Remember the “Girls Can Fly” 13-year-old from Half Moon Bay 7 years ago?
The press trumpted her to high heavens.
She crashed and died.
Where’s Child Protective Services when you actually need them?
I agree with you. What parent would allow this?
My guess is that the dad is a mountaineer.
I smell a Darwin Award candidate.
Jordan will attempt the ascent to 29,035 feet with his father and his father's girlfriend, both experienced outdoors people who have helped train the teenager for top-level mountaineering.
At age 10, he became the youngest American to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. He's steadily checked off four of the tallest peaks since then, including Alaska's Mount McKinley, which many climbers consider to be a more technical climb than Everest.
Place this one in the tragedy category along with the child pilot who died unnecessarily. ..hopefully the child services will step up and prevent this...
"Son, if you're gonna be dumb, ya gotta be tough. Don't wind up like these here frozen corpses."
I don't see the big deal, he is fit and healthy and he will do what he is told and will never be alone.
This is a matter of putting one foot in front of another with experts walking beside you to tell you when to stop, when to eat, when to use oxygen, when to go left or right, either he is fit enough for it or not, he will not be making decisions and judgements.
yeah...let your 13 year old lose his fingers, toes or die on the slopes...
the parents should be arrested for child abuse if they let him do this...
I teach 13 year olds.
I DO NOT APPROVE.
I have a friend that wanted to climb the seven tallest mountains in the world. She climbed six of them and the last one scared her to death. The seventh one was Everest and she said no way. When she did this, each mountain was harder than the last. Everest was just too much for her to handle.
Is this child an orphan? Where are the parents/guardians? This is just, well, stupid. The local authorities should not allow it, period.
Maybe he should try something difficult—like getting CA legislators to reduce spending on their union buddies.
I met the kid and his dad on a hike at Runyon Canyon prior to his climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. It appeared to me his dad was the one doing the pushing so his kid would be famous. At that time his dad was thinking about hitting the 7 highest mountains so his kid would be the youngest to do all. These aren’t cheap trips so his dad must have a ton of money from some where. It’s not from his job in Big Bear.
Maybe someone here can verify this but I think I read somewhere that 10% of the people who attempt to scale Everest end up dead. Is this true? I don’t like those odds. This is madness with this child. The dad ought to be in jail.
At least climbing Everest it only takes a couple of days and there are other people around. Down in the Southern Ocean it gets lonely
"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." - Samuel Johnson (Unless you are doing solitary)
Jon Krakauer’s book: Into Thin Air does a good job of explaining how it can happen.
the same kind of parents that let the ‘under-10’ year old girl try to ‘sorta-solo’ across the country. You member....the one that got killed in a crash?
