13-year-old summits Mt. Everest

Serious Business Backup 8 replies 326 views
Websurfinbird's avatar
Websurfinbird
Posts: 656
May 24, 2010 12:45pm
C
chs71
Posts: 70
May 24, 2010 1:22pm
It is a tremendous achievement, but would you trust your 13 year old to make life and death decisions?
j_crazy's avatar
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
May 24, 2010 5:17pm
mtrulz, take note.

slacker...
UA5straightin2008's avatar
UA5straightin2008
Posts: 3,246
May 24, 2010 5:20pm
i agree, pretty badass
Rotinaj's avatar
Rotinaj
Posts: 7,699
May 24, 2010 5:45pm
I heard yesterday the kid climbed kilamonjaro(sp?) at age 9.
darbypitcher22's avatar
darbypitcher22
Posts: 8,000
May 24, 2010 6:13pm
congrats to the kid.
Ankle Breaker's avatar
Ankle Breaker
Posts: 398
May 24, 2010 6:58pm
Read an article on Yahoo News yesterday where the kid called his mom from the summit. I didn't realize they had a cell phone tower up there. lol
sej's avatar
sej
Posts: 540
May 25, 2010 8:05am
Ankle Breaker wrote: Read an article on Yahoo News yesterday where the kid called his mom from the summit. I didn't realize they had a cell phone tower up there. lol
Satellite phones don't need towers :)




That's pretty badass. I used to have a job where I hiked with that age group. Those lazy kids were lucky if they made it halfway up the easy hikes we did!
C
Con_Alma
Posts: 12,198
May 25, 2010 9:32am
There's something intriguing about scaling Everest to me. I can't get enough of news stories about these efforts.