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MAY 23, 2010
JORDAN
ROMERO, AGE 13, BREAKS WORLD RECORD & REACHES
THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT EVEREST
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Jordan
Romero becomes the youngest person in the
world to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. |
On
May 22, 2010, Jordan Romero, age 13, became the youngest person
in the world to reach the summit of Mount Everest, setting a new
World Record. |
Jordan’s
entire ascent up Mount Everest was monitored by a GPS tracker, and
relayed to his family back home in California.
Because of Jordan’s young age, the Nepalese government would
not give him permission to climb Mount Everest from Nepal. Instead,
Jordan had to make his ascent up the mountain from a much more difficult
and treacherous approach, which is the Chinese side, where there
is no age restriction.
Jordan Romero has now successfully climbed the tallest mountains
on six of the world's seven continents. He climbed the Mount Kilimanjaro
summit in Tanzania at the age of 10, setting a world record.
Jordan’s quest includes climbing all of the highest peaks
of the tallest mountains on every continent. He has accomplished
every one of those goals except one, and plans on tackling the last
summit of his quest in December 2010, when Jordan will attempt to
climb Mt. Vinson, Antarctica’s highest peak at 16,050 feet.
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen, Chief of Biomedical Research at
the Glycemic Research Institute (www.Glycemic.com),
has been working on Human Sports Performance with Jordan’s
father, Paul Romero for the past 7 years, and Jordan has been on
the Human Sports Performance Kids NanoCroc Committee since
he was age 9 (www.HumanSportsPerformance.com).
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen was one of Jordan’s Primary Sponsors
for the Mount Everest climb, and designed a Nitric Oxide drink for
Jordan to take with him up the mountain.
Jordan, along with his father, visited Dr. Allen at her home in
Florida right before he left for Mount Everest, and they discussed
Jordan’s plans to educate and inspire kids, and to help fight
the childhood obesity epidemic.
Dr. Allen states, “Jordan is the most amazing kid I have ever
met. He can do anything he sets his mind to. Paul Romero, Jordan’s
father, has instilled in Jordan a love of humanity, and a drive
in life to make a difference in this world.” |
The Seven
Summits
Summits Conquered by Jordan Romero: |
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Mt. Kilimanjaro |
Africa’s
highest peak at 19, 340 ft. (age 10) |
| • Mt.
Kosciuszko |
Australia's
highest peak at 7,310 ft. (age 10) |
| • Mt.
Elbrus |
Europe’s
highest peak at 18,510 ft. (age 11) |
| • Mt.
Aconcagua |
South America’s
highest peak at 22,841 ft. (age 11) |
| • Mt.
McKinley |
North America’s
highest peak at 20,320 ft. (age 11) |
| • Carstensz
Pyramid |
Oceania's highest
peak at 16,024 ft. (age 13) |
| • Mt.
Everest |
Asia's highest
peak at 29,035 ft. (age 13) |
| Still
to climb: |
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| • Mt.
Vinson |
Antarctica's
highest peak at 16,050 ft. (Winter 2010) |
Jordan
Romero: Mt. Everest Premiere Sponsors |
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BUFF |
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Network Innovations |
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nuun |
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OMEGA XL |
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POLARTEC |
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Smith Optics |
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SOLE |
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Team Duke (John
Wayne Cancer Foundation) |
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Glycemic Research
Institute: Dr. Ann de Wees Allen |
JORDAN
ROMERO’S WORLD RECORD:
MT. EVEREST: |
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JORDAN ROMERO REACHES
TOP OF MOUNT EVEREST
“Mom,
this is your son calling
from the top of the world,"
CNN
WORLD NEWS
Everest
climber, 13:
Kids should follow me
By
Manesh Shrestha, for CNN
May 27, 2010 8:38 a.m. EDT
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Jordan
Romero arrives with supporters and family members at the Nepal-China
border northwest of Kathmandu on May 26, 2010 |
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Youngest person to climb Everest says age is no bar to following
one's dreams |
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Jordan
Romero reached peak of 8,850-meter mountain at age 13 years, 10
months |
Kathmandu,
Nepal (CNN) –
The youngest person to climb the world's highest mountain has said
age is no bar to following one's dreams and that he would encourage
children even younger than himself to scale Everest.
On Saturday Jordan Romero, from Big Bear, California, reached the
peak of the 8,848-meter (29,028-foot) mountain aged 13 years, 10
months and 10 days accompanied by his father and stepmother.
"Age is not a matter," Jordan told reporters in Kathmandu,
a day after he returned from his climb. "My body did cope with
the altitude very well."
And he said he would encourage children younger even than him to
reach the summit. "I definitely do encourage (them) to go big,"
he said.
Jordan said he wanted his climb to inspire young people. "I
am doing this to set an example for them," he added.
The youngster has now climbed six of the "seven summits,"
the highest mountains of the seven continents; he plans to climb
Vinson Massif in Antarctica in December.
Before that he hopes to climb the 8,201-meter Cho Oyu, the sixth
highest mountain in the world that lies on the Nepal-Tibet border,
and descend on skis.
He said he wanted to give the message that if one sets out to do
anything, it is possible.
He got the idea to climb the seven summits in 2004, when he saw
a mural on the wall of his school.
He climbed his first of the seven summits, Mount Kilimanjaro in
Africa, aged 10, in 2006.
He said the Everest climb was difficult and he didn't think he would
reach the summit. "The altitude, the lack of oxygen made it
difficult. Winds were blowing at 100 kilometers per hour and it
was cold."
I cried for an hour leading to the summit when we knew we were going
to make it --Paul Romero, father of Jordan
As he approached the summit he said he was thinking of the weeks
leading up to the final moment.
"We knew this was the moment he had been waiting for,"
he said.
Jordan was accompanied on his most recent climb by his father Paul
Romero, a paramedic specializing in high altitude physiology and
medicine, and stepmother Karen Lundgren. Three Nepali sherpas also
reached the peak on 22 May.
Asked how he felt when his son reached the summit Paul Romero said:
"I cried for an hour leading to the summit when we knew we
were going to make it," he said. "I was watching him getting
stronger as he went up."
The day before the summit the team left their camp at 7,500 meters
at 5 p.m., and reached the summit 14 hours later. It took them another
eight hours to get back to camp. Paul, also the leader of the expedition,
attributed strong teamwork for their success.
Because of strong winds climbers do not climb to the summit during
the day.
About 4,000 people have climbed Everest since Edmund Hillary of
New Zealand and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first climbed the mountain
in 1953.
The Romeros spent about 15 minutes at the summit, during which Jordan
called his mother in the U.S. on a satellite phone.
"I said, 'Mom, this is your son calling from the top of the
world," an assured-looking Jordan told the news conference.
Asked whether he had put his son in any danger, Paul, who's been
on climbing expeditions around the world, said, "We had rehearsed
every possible scenario. I know what calculated risks are."
Despite his achievement, Jordan is trying to keep up with his schoolwork
on the expedition. He is a week or two behind his middle school
algebra assignment, he said, but is confident that he will catch
up. He certainly has a good excuse.
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