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Posted: **Fri May 21, 2010 3:10 am**

And hes off! He will make it, Everest is just a walk up anyway, the parts you climb have ladders already in place! Imagine that!

Posted: **Fri May 21, 2010 9:13 pm**

Hotoven wrote:And hes off! He will make it, Everest is just a walk up anyway, the parts you climb have ladders already in place! Imagine that!

I just hiked it last night after work :lol:

Posted: **Fri May 21, 2010 11:18 pm**

Their SPOT shows them between 1st and 2nd step.

http://edn1.esri.com/everest/Default.html

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 1:54 am**

He's within 300 vertical feet now, this is exciting to watch. Just hoping regardless of the summit that he gets down alright. Afterall, that is the first priority.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 3:51 am**

It appears that he may have made it and is now on his way down.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 5:02 am**

Tracy wrote:It appears that he may have made it and is now on his way down.

LA Times just reported a spokesperson said he'd called from summit (!) and was on the descent.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 5:14 am**

but call me when someone is about to give birth on the summit.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 7:08 am**

ktnbs wrote:but call me when someone is about to give birth on the summit.

Barefoot.
Have to admit, looking at photos of the kid, he looks pretty down-to-earth. If that's true, and he's really a young Messner, than, well, money or not, it's pretty impressive that he climbed it.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 7:30 am**

robgendreau wrote:
Tracy wrote:It appears that he may have made it and is now on his way down.

LA Times just reported a spokesperson said he'd called from summit (!) and was on the descent.

You started this thread from day 1, based on your post.........you weren't a big fan of this at all. But this latest post, I think you may have taken a diiferent position? Am I reading 2 different views from you?

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 8:38 am**

Congratulations to Jordan Romero

http://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/ ... p?id=19380

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 12:02 pm**

Circus Everest has done it again. People must be joking to even mentioning this kid and full scale alpine climbers in the same sentence.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 1:33 pm**

How cool. Good for him.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 2:04 pm**

So....Will this thread now whither away?

Now there will be some set of richass parents (House Wives of NJ, NY CA etc) somewhere on this planet that will do all they can to get their TWELVE YEAR OLD or younger child to the summit of the Big E.

Got have that record now to be someone....

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 2:26 pm**

We'll follow his descent...

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2010 3:36 pm**

Oldest, youngest, fattest, thinest, dumbest, smartest, first African-Am, first Mex, on and on it goes... bragging rights... yeah right!

My five-year old grandson loves to climb steep rocky hills. Now he wants to climb a "snowy mountain". hmmm...

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13 year-old on Everest

okay - sure, whatever.

Re: okay - sure, whatever.

13 year old on Everest