Laura Dekker

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Laura Dekker (Whangarei, New Zealand, 20 September 1995) is a

New Zealand navigator best known for circumnavigating solo


around the Earth in 2010-2012.12
27 years old)
The initial planned route was from Portimão in Portugal,9 and the
finish was on the island of St Martin in the Caribbean. Planned
stopovers included stops for rest, study and repairs. The route
plan included passing through ports in the Canary Islands,
Panama, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, South Africa and
Indonesia. 17 Piracy was a serious concern; their plan was to
make about twenty-six port calls.
Sailed for 14 months

Guppy travelled. 23400 Miles

Jordan Romero (born July 12, 1996)[2] is an American mountain climber who was 13 years old
when he reached the summit of Mount Everest.

Noted summits Romero has climbed[6]

Elevation Elevation
Year Summits Country Continent
ft m

July 2006 Mount Kilimanjaro Tanzania Africa 19,340 5,892

Mount
April 2007 Australia Australia 7,310 2,228
Kosciuszko

July 2007 Mount Elbrus Russia Europe 18,510 5,642

December South
Aconcagua Argentina 22,841 6,962
2007 America
United States North
June 2008 Denali 20,320 6,194
(Alaska) America

September Mount Carstensz


Indonesia Asia 16,024 4,884
2009 Pyramid

May 2010 Mount Everest Nepal - China Asia 29,029 8,848

December
Vinson Massif N/A Antarctica 16,050 4,892
2011

Jade Hameister OAM (born 5 June 2001) is an Australian woman who, at age 16, became the
youngest person in history to pull off the "polar hat-trick", ski to the North and South Poles, and
cross the second largest polar icecap on the planet: Greenland.[1] Hameister travelled over
1,300 km on these three missions, which totalled almost four months on ice.
Her "Polar Quest" expeditions were captured as part of a National Geographic feature-length
documentary released in 2018 that documented both her Greenland and South Pole
expeditions

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