Eighteen-year-old US climber Samantha Larson became the youngest foreign woman to scale Everest. With this, she completed the world record as the youngest person to have completed the Seven Summits challenge, breaking a record set last year by then 20-year-old British climber Rhys Miles Jones.
The achievements of this brave girl are most commendable, she was just 12 when she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. Since then she has scaled the highest peaks on all seven continents, also called the “Seven Summits.” From Long Beach, California she has become the youngest American to climb Mt. Everest.
Describing the difficulty of the climb, Larson said the altitude drains all appetite; after gobbling down a chocolate bar, she subsisted for several days only on water to ward off dehydration.
The Larsons also become, perhaps, the first father-daughter team to conquer the so-called seven summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.
Do check out her blog as well as her Everest blog!
Source: TaipeiTimes
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Samantha was a brave young lady..very odd to see some women have the courage to make a world record through climbing mount everest and some other challenges..as a woman, i might as well be focused o n preparing myself to my office works and to my car maintenance especially for my ford pickup cowl cover replacements..i just loved traveling and adventures, but never imagined myself on climbing everest..