Human Sports Performance

May 23, 2010

JORDAN ROMERO, AGE 13, BREAKS WORLD RECORD & REACHES THE
SUMMIT OF MOUNT EVEREST

Jordan Romero becomes the youngest person in the world to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.

On May 22, 2010, Jordan Romero, age 13, became the youngest person in the world to reach the summit of Mount Everest, setting a new World Record.

Jordan’s entire ascent up Mount Everest was monitored by a GPS tracker, and relayed to his family back home in California.

Because of Jordan’s young age, the Nepalese government would not give him permission to climb Mount Everest from Nepal. Instead, Jordan had to make his ascent up the mountain from a much more difficult and treacherous approach, which is the Chinese side, where there is no age restriction.

Jordan Romero has now successfully climbed the tallest mountains on six of the world's seven continents. He climbed the Mount Kilimanjaro summit in Tanzania at the age of 10, setting a world record.

Jordan’s quest includes climbing all of the highest peaks of the tallest mountains on every continent. He has accomplished every one of those goals except one, and plans on tackling the last summit of his quest in December 2010, when Jordan will attempt to climb Mt. Vinson, Antarctica’s highest peak at 16,050 feet.

Dr. Ann de Wees Allen, renowned clinical researcher, has been working on Human Sports Performance with Jordan’s father, Paul Romero for the past 7 years, and Jordan has been on the Human Sports Performance Kids NanoCroc Committee since he was age 9 (www.HumanSportsPerformance.com).

Dr. Ann de Wees Allen was one of Jordan’s Primary Sponsors for the Mount Everest climb, and designed a Nitric Oxide drink for Jordan to take with him up the mountain.

Jordan, along with his father, visited Dr. Allen at her home in Florida right before he left for Mount Everest, and they discussed Jordan’s plans to educate and inspire kids, and to help fight the childhood obesity epidemic.

Dr. Allen states, “Jordan is the most amazing kid I have ever met. He can do anything he sets his mind to. Paul Romero, Jordan’s father, has instilled in Jordan a love of humanity, and a drive in life to make a difference in this world.”

The Seven Summits Summits Conquered by Jordan Romero:

• Mt. Kilimanjaro	Africa’s highest peak at 19, 340 ft. (age 10)
• Mt. Kosciuszko	Australia's highest peak at 7,310 ft. (age 10)
• Mt. Elbrus	Europe’s highest peak at 18,510 ft. (age 11)
• Mt. Aconcagua	South America’s highest peak at 22,841 ft. (age 11)
• Mt. McKinley	North America’s highest peak at 20,320 ft. (age 11)
• Carstensz Pyramid	Oceania's highest peak at 16,024 ft. (age 13)
• Mt. Everest	Asia's highest peak at 29,035 ft. (age 13)

Still to climb:
• Mt. Vinson	Antarctica's highest peak at 16,050 ft. (Winter 2010)

Jordan Romero: Mount Everest Premiere Sponsors

•	BUFF
•	Network Innovations
•	nuun
•	OMEGA XL
•	POLARTEC
•	Smith Optics
•	SOLE
•	Team Duke (John Wayne Cancer Foundation)
•	Dr. Ann de Wees Allen

JORDAN ROMERO’S WORLD RECORD: MT. EVEREST:

CNN	CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows us why this teen, who scaled Mount Everest, climbs so high. Click Here
MSNBC NEWS:	Matt Lauer interviews Jordan Romero Click Here
MSNBC NEWS:	Jordan Romero's Everest summit "Today Show" Interview: Click Here
CBS NEWS:	13-Year-Old Reaches Top of Mt. Everest Click Here
ABC WORLD NEWS - DIANE SAWYER:	'Mom, I'm Calling You From the Top of the World' Click Here
BBC NEWS:	Jordan Romero, 13, 'becomes youngest to scale Everest' Click Here

JORDAN ROMERO REACHES
TOP OF MOUNT EVEREST

“Mom, this is your son calling
from the top of the world,"

CNN WORLD NEWS

Everest climber, 13:
Kids should follow me

By Manesh Shrestha, for CNN
May 27, 2010 8:38 a.m. EDT

Jordan Romero arrives with supporters and family members at the Nepal-China border northwest of Kathmandu on May 26, 2010

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

•	Youngest person to climb Everest says age is no bar to following one's dreams
•	Jordan Romero reached peak of 8,850-meter mountain at age 13 years, 10 months

Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) –

The youngest person to climb the world's highest mountain has said age is no bar to following one's dreams and that he would encourage children even younger than himself to scale Everest.

On Saturday Jordan Romero, from Big Bear, California, reached the peak of the 8,848-meter (29,028-foot) mountain aged 13 years, 10 months and 10 days accompanied by his father and stepmother.

"Age is not a matter," Jordan told reporters in Kathmandu, a day after he returned from his climb. "My body did cope with the altitude very well."

And he said he would encourage children younger even than him to reach the summit. "I definitely do encourage (them) to go big," he said.

Jordan said he wanted his climb to inspire young people. "I am doing this to set an example for them," he added.

The youngster has now climbed six of the "seven summits," the highest mountains of the seven continents; he plans to climb Vinson Massif in Antarctica in December.

Before that he hopes to climb the 8,201-meter Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world that lies on the Nepal-Tibet border, and descend on skis.

He said he wanted to give the message that if one sets out to do anything, it is possible.

He got the idea to climb the seven summits in 2004, when he saw a mural on the wall of his school.

He climbed his first of the seven summits, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, aged 10, in 2006.

He said the Everest climb was difficult and he didn't think he would reach the summit. "The altitude, the lack of oxygen made it difficult. Winds were blowing at 100 kilometers per hour and it was cold."

I cried for an hour leading to the summit when we knew we were going to make it --Paul Romero, father of Jordan

As he approached the summit he said he was thinking of the weeks leading up to the final moment.

"We knew this was the moment he had been waiting for," he said.

Jordan was accompanied on his most recent climb by his father Paul Romero, a paramedic specializing in high altitude physiology and medicine, and stepmother Karen Lundgren. Three Nepali sherpas also reached the peak on 22 May.

Asked how he felt when his son reached the summit Paul Romero said: "I cried for an hour leading to the summit when we knew we were going to make it," he said. "I was watching him getting stronger as he went up."

The day before the summit the team left their camp at 7,500 meters at 5 p.m., and reached the summit 14 hours later. It took them another eight hours to get back to camp. Paul, also the leader of the expedition, attributed strong teamwork for their success.

Because of strong winds climbers do not climb to the summit during the day.

About 4,000 people have climbed Everest since Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first climbed the mountain in 1953.

The Romeros spent about 15 minutes at the summit, during which Jordan called his mother in the U.S. on a satellite phone.

"I said, 'Mom, this is your son calling from the top of the world," an assured-looking Jordan told the news conference.

Asked whether he had put his son in any danger, Paul, who's been on climbing expeditions around the world, said, "We had rehearsed every possible scenario. I know what calculated risks are."

Despite his achievement, Jordan is trying to keep up with his schoolwork on the expedition. He is a week or two behind his middle school algebra assignment, he said, but is confident that he will catch up. He certainly has a good excuse.