美13岁男孩挑战珠峰 有望成年龄最小登顶者.docVIP

精品论文 参考文献 美13岁男孩挑战珠峰 有望成年龄最小登顶者 If this 13-year-old American boy succeeds in his bid to climb Mount Everest, he has modest ambitions--pick a small piece of rock from the top of the world as a memento and wear it in a necklace. “I will not sell it; I will not give it to anyone. It is something for myself to say lsquo;this is a rock from the summitrsquo;,”Jordan Romero from California, told reporters in Kathmandu. He left for the mountain on April 11. If he succeeds, Romero will become the youngest climber to scale the 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) Everest summit.Currently a 16year-old Nepali boy, Temba Tsheri Sherpa, holds the record of being the worldrsquo;s youngest climber of Mount Everest. But Romero, sitting over lunch with his climbing father and stepmother in Kathmandursquo;s tourist district of Thamel,said he was not after setting climbing records. Romero said Mount Qomolangma,that straddles Nepal-China border, was part of his goal to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents. “It is just a goal,”he said confidently. “If I donrsquo;t succeed I am okay. I will try again.” Romero has already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mount McKinley in Alaska among others. Romero and his father Paul, a critical care paramedic, said the boy was ready to take on the climb and under- stood the risk of climbing the giant mountain. “I know it requires a lot of patience. I will remain patient. I want to stay safe and make right choice,”Romero said of his climb using the northeast ridge route on the Chinese side of the mountain. More than 4,000 climbers have reached the top of Mount Qomolangma since it was first climbed by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalrsquo;s Tenzing Norgay Sherpa in 1953.Romero said he wanted to climb the highest mountains in all 50 states in the United States next. 如果这名13 岁的美国男孩成功登上珠穆朗玛峰，他有一个不算过分的愿望院从世界之巅捡一块小石头作为纪念，并把它在戴在脖子上。 来自美国加利福尼亚州的乔丹。罗梅罗