Posted on 05/22/2010 1:41:11 PM PDT by Daffynition
BEIJING – The youngest climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest hugged his tearful companions and told them he loved them. Then 13-year-old Jordan Romero took the satellite phone and called his mom.
"He says, 'Mom, I'm calling you from the top of the world,'" a giddy Leigh Anne Drake told The Associated Press from California, where she had been watching her son's progress minute by minute on a GPS tracker online.
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Cool.
Jordan Romero climbs Mount Everest at 13 and becomes new world record holder
Must have got good reception, LOL!
Wow.
Makes you realize just how little you’ve accomplished.
“Jordan Romero, the 13-year-old Californian teenager with the looks of a budding pop star, silenced his detractors by reaching the top of Mt Everest after almost four years of hard training. Romero, who plans to conquer the other highest peaks in six other continents, is now the youngest Everest hero. The record was earlier held by Ming Kipa Sherpa, a 15-year-old schoolgirl who had climbed Mt Everest in 2003 from the same northern route via Tibet that Ming Kipa took to circumvent the age restriction imposed by the Nepali authorities.
Around the same time, Arjun Vajpai, a 12th grader from Ryans International School in New Delhi, did India proud by planting the Indian tricolour on the peak of Mt Everest. Vajpai, 16 years 11 months and 18 days old now becomes the youngest Indian to achieve the task, outpacing Maharashtra’s Krushnaa Patil, who climbed the mountain last year at the age of 19.
Yet another incredible Everest feat came from a man who has already become a living legend. Apa “Super Sherpa”, 50, broke his own record of having climed Mt Everest an astonishing 19 times to make his 20th ascent. Apa was leading the Eco Everest Expedition 2010, an initiative started three years ago in the memory of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first Everest legend, to clean the mountain of the accumulating garbage.”
Mt. Everest is the bump in the background, on the top left of the photo, directly along the line pointed by the grey roof.
That’s a Nepal flag he’s holding.
Nepal, Himalayas, Mt Everest and Mt Nuptse, dusk
Imagine waking up to that every morning!
I saw the IMAX movie about Everest. It was amazing.
Everything is relative.
I have a neighbor who lost both legs to an IED in Iraq ... and when I see him pull himself out of his wheelchair and into his van ...I think that each time it must be like climbing Everest. ;)
“Mount Everest. Forbidding, aloof, terrifying. The mountain with the biggest tits in the world.”
START AGAIN!
Yes! Of the many books written about climbing Everest, my favorite remains: Into Thin Air: a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster - By Jon Krakauer
This is a great achievement for anyone, but
Sorry I just find this totally irresponsible.
It is a parent’s job to everything in their power to ensure that their child reaches adulthood with all parts of their anatomy and their faculties intact.
Taking part in hobbies that have a high death rate with their father would not be conducive to that goal.
Sorry this modern idea of taking you children with you on death defying adventures is totally wacked.
I find that it is irresponsible for a man who has dependent children to go on these adventures alone let alone take his child with him.
Climbing Mount Everest is a highly dangerous endeavor. People who climb Everest have a high chance of frostbite, brain damage and death.
High numbers of Everest climbers die after reaching the summit. So this kid is not out of the woods yet.
One good thing is that Jordan’s father is a paramedic because at those altitudes there is no chance of help other than his team mates. If Jordan succumbes to altitude sickness or frostbite his life will depend on those with him until they can get him down to about 18,000 feet where a helicopter can fly him out.
What ever happened to taking your responsibilities as a parent seriously?
Well at least they made him take his homework :)
Post 7....That is one beautiful picture.
Did you know that the top of Everest contains bits of fossilised sea creatures? The entire Himalayas was once the sea-bed of the Tethys, before the Indian landmass pushed it almost 9 kilometres skyward.
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