Jordan Romero – Youngest Person to Climb Mt. Everest

Jordan Romero has set the age really high. At the age of 13, the American boy has become the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

A spokesman for Jordan Romero says the boy’s team called by satellite phone from the summit of the world’s highest peak on Saturday.

The previous record for the youngest climber to scale Everest had been held by Temba Tsheri of Nepal. He reached the peak at age 16.

Romero was climbing Everest with a team that included his father and three Sherpa guides. He left for the peak from the base camp on the Chinese side of the mountain.

“Every step I take is finally toward the biggest goal of my life, to stand on top of the world,” Jordan said earlier on his blog.