Samantha Larson

Samantha Larson is an American mountain climber from Long Beach, California, born in 1988. On 16 May 2007, at the age of 18, she became temporarily the youngest non-Nepalese woman to summit Mount Everest, and by doing so also the youngest person to have completed the Seven Summits on the Bass list. She and her father, David Larson, were the first father and daughter team to finish the Seven Summits, which they began with Kilimanjaro in February 2001 when she was twelve, and in August 2007 they climbed Carstensz Pyramid to complete the Messner list as well. She was nominated for an ESPY Award in 2007 and appeared in a 2008 issue of National Geographic Kids.