American boy, 13, tackles Everest
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April 11, 2010, Sunday
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IF this 13-year-old American boy succeeds in his bid to climb Mount Everest, he has modest ambitions -- pick a small piece of rock from the top of the world as a memento and wear it in a necklace.
"I will not sell it; I will not give it to anyone. It is something for myself to say 'this is a rock from the summit'," Jordan Romero from California, said in Kathmandu.
Due to leave today, if Romero succeeds he will become the youngest climber to scale the 8,850-meter summit.
A 16-year-old Nepali boy, Temba Tsheri Sherpa, is currently the world's youngest climber of Mount Everest.
But Romero, sitting with his paramedic climber father and stepmother in Kathmandu's tourist district of Thamel, said he didn't want to set climbing records.
He said Everest was part of a goal to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.
"It is just a goal," he said. "If I don't succeed I am okay. I will try again."
Romero has already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mount McKinley in Alaska, among others.
"I will not sell it; I will not give it to anyone. It is something for myself to say 'this is a rock from the summit'," Jordan Romero from California, said in Kathmandu.
Due to leave today, if Romero succeeds he will become the youngest climber to scale the 8,850-meter summit.
A 16-year-old Nepali boy, Temba Tsheri Sherpa, is currently the world's youngest climber of Mount Everest.
But Romero, sitting with his paramedic climber father and stepmother in Kathmandu's tourist district of Thamel, said he didn't want to set climbing records.
He said Everest was part of a goal to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.
"It is just a goal," he said. "If I don't succeed I am okay. I will try again."
Romero has already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mount McKinley in Alaska, among others.
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