An American teenager, Jordan Romero, has become the
youngest person to climb to the summit of the highest mountains on each of the
seven continents.
At age 10, Romero climbed Mt.
Kilimanjaro in Africa, and at age 13 he climbed the world's highest mountain
Mt. Everest in Asia.
The other
peaks climbed by Jordan are Russia's Mt Elbrus (July 2007), Argentina's Mt
Aconcagua (December 2007), Mt McKinley in the US (June 2008) and Indonesia's
Carstensz Pyramid (September 2009).
In April
2007, he also climbed Australia's highest mountain, Kosciuszko.