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A 13-year-old boy has the youngest person to climb Mt. Everest. Jordan Romero broke the record set by Nepal’s 15-year-old Ming Kipa in 2003. Jordan has now the highest on six continents. His first record came when he Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania when he was just nine. He plans to climb the Vinson Massif in Antarctica in December. This will make him the youngest person to climb the tallest mountains on all seven . The first thing Jordan did on the of Everest was call his mother. "I'm from the top of the world," he told her. Jordan wrote about his climbing on his blog: "It's my dream…I know it's a big goal, and lucky for me my family is me every step of the way."

Jordan he wanted to climb the world’s tallest peaks when he was in fourth . He told his mother and father and they started a programme for Jordan to his dream. His mother, Leigh Anne Drake, recalled the first time they took Jordan on a hike. She said it was a six-mile trek near their home in Big Bear, California. Drake says her son moaned, and cried most of the way, but when he got home, he wanted to training. "I decided we were going to follow Jordan's ," Leigh Anne said. "If he wants to try it, we're going to support it." Romero said he climbed Everest for a special reason. He wanted to more young people to get outdoors and reduce in America’s teenagers.