'He says, 'Mom, I'm calling you from the top of the world,'' a giddy Leigh Anne Drake told The Associated Press from California, where she had been watching her son's progress minute by minute on a GPS tracker online.
'There were lots of tears and 'I love you! I love you!'' Drake said. 'I just told him to get his butt back home.'
With Saturday's success on the world's highest mountain, at 29,035 feet (8,850 meters) above sea level, Jordan is just one climb from his quest to reach the highest peaks on all seven continents.
The teenager with a mop of long curly hair — who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa when he was 9 years old — says he was inspired by a painting in his school hallway of the seven continents' highest summits.
'Every step I take is finally toward the biggest goal of my life, to stand on top of the world,' Jordan said earlier on his blog."
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'There were lots of tears and 'I love you! I love you!'' Drake said. 'I just told him to get his butt back home.'
If I had done this, my mother would have wailed: "You could have broken your neck!"
But you shouldn't feel like a slug, Bill -- at least the little mook wasn't out tramping through someone's yard.
Well, not mine, anyway. We're a long way from Everest!
I wonder what roaming charges he ran up with that call from Everest? Yikes.
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