American boy, 13, will try to climb Mount Everest
KATMANDU. April 12. KAZINFORM 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; Kazinform refers to the Arab News.
"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, told Reuters in Katmandu. He is due to leave for the mountain on Sunday.
If he succeeds, Romero will become the youngest climber to scale the 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) Everest summit. Currently a 16-year-old Nepali boy, Temba Tsheri Sherpa, holds the record of being the world's youngest climber of Mount Everest.
But Romero, sitting over lunch with his climbing father and stepmother in Katmandu's tourist district of Thamel, said he was not after setting climbing records.
Romero said Mount Everest, that straddles Nepal-China border, was part of his goal to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.
"It is just a goal," he said confidently. "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.
Romero and his father Paul, a critical care paramedic, said the boy was ready to take on the climb and understood the risk of climbing the giant mountain; Kazinform cites the Arab News.
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