Young climber makes history
An 18-year-old from Southern California has made history by becoming the youngest person on record to scale the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.
Samantha Larson completed the 'seven summit challenge' by reaching the peak of Mount Everest in the Himalayas.
Her climb breaks a 2006 record set by then-20-year-old British climber Rhys Miles Jones.
Larson graduated from high school in 2006, and put off attending Stanford University for a year so she could scale some of the world's tallest peaks with her father.
A 15-year-old Sherpa girl from Nepal was the youngest ever to climb Everest.
Larson, who has been climbing since she was a child, reached the summit of South America's Aconcagua when she was 13 and Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro when she was 14.
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