Tyler Armstrong (9), California boy, becomes youngest person to scale highest mountain of America (Argentina’s Aconcagua mountain)
International Current Affairs: December 2013
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9-year-old boy from Southern California has become the youngest person in
recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina's Aconcagua mountain, which
at 22,841 feet is the tallest peak in the Western and Southern hemispheres.
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Tyler Armstrong of Yorba Linda reached the summit on Christmas Eve with his
father Kevin and a Tibetan sherpa, Lhawang Dhondup, who has climbed Mount
Everest multiple times. They were in fine spirits Friday as they left
Aconcagua, whose sheer precipices and bitter cold have claimed more than 100
climbers' lives.
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Before Tyler, Matthew Moniz from the United States was the youngest person to
climb the mountain at the age of 10 in the year 2008.
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