Youngest Foreign Climber to Scale Mount Everest
FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
An eighteen year old girl from Long Beach, California became the youngest foreign climber to scale the highest mountain on all seven continents. She reached the 8,850 meter summit of Everest last May 17 along with her father who is an anesthesiologist.
Samantha Larson was happy to had reached Mount Everest last May 17 with the accompany of his father, fifty-one year old David Larson. According to the Nepalese Mountaineering Department she was the youngest foreign woman to scale Mount Everest. She graduated in 2006 from Long Beach Poly High School with a grade of 4.43 and will be going back to school this semester in Stanford University.
Samantha was fourteen year old when she climbed Mount Kilimanjaroin Tanzania and from that time on she has scaled the highest peaks on all seven continents, also known as the "Seven Summits". Larson is the youngest person to have completed the "seven summits" challenge, breaking a 2006 record set by then-20-year-old British climber Rhys Miles Jones, according to www.7summits.com website.
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