{"id":17666,"date":"2010-04-12T21:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/news\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2010-04-12T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:51:42","slug":"jordan-romero-denied-climbing-permit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/jordan-romero-denied-climbing-permit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Romero (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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UPDATE: Jordan does have a permit to climb from Tibet and is on his way to base camp in Tibet.<\/p>\n


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The spokesperson, <\/a> Baburam Bhandari, <\/a> in the referenced Xinhau article is from Nepal where the minimum age to climb Everest is 16. Mr. Bhandari would not have seen an application from Jordan because he is climbing in Tibet, not Nepal. China has no age limits. I will leave this post up because it may clarify the confusion as I am sure this story will spread which was posted on XinhuaNews.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Please follow Jordan on his site at http:\/\/www.jordanromero.com\/weblog\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Jordan does have a permit to climb on the north. The article below was from a Nepal official where the minimum age is 16. 13 year-old Jordan Romero had captured the world media with his bid to summit the highest mountain on each of the earth’s continents, the 7 Summits. He had already summited 6 (actually 7 including Kosciuszko in Australia) and is currently on his way to Apparently, there is a snag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[259,147],"tags":[345],"class_list":["post-17666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-coverage","category-everest","tag-jordan-romero"],"yoast_head":"\nJordan Romero (updated) - The Blog on alanarnette.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"alanarnette.com is a site covering big mountain climbing including Everest, K2, and the 7 summits. 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