Jordan Romero

Jordan Romero (born 1996) is an American mountaineer who was 13 years old when he reached the summit of Mount Everest, accompanied by his father Paul Romero, his step-mother Karen Lundgren and three Sherpas. The previous record for the youngest climber of Everest was held by Ming Kipa of Nepal, who was 15 when she reached the summit on 22 May 2003. Romero was inspired to climb the tallest mountain on each continent when he saw a painting in the hallway of his school showing the seven continents' highest mountains, and on climbing Vinson Massif in December 2011, aged 15 years, 5 months and 12 days, he became the youngest person in the world to complete the Seven Summits.