Guidance

Where there is a will there is a way．沒有比腳更長的路，沒有比人更高的山，只要你有毅力，有目標，一點一點向前進，再高的山峰也會被你踩在腳下，再遠的目標也會被你握在手中。

1 A thirteen-year-old American boy, Jordan Romero became the youngest climber to reach the top of the world, Mount Everest.

2 Jordan Romero called his mother from the summit of the world's highest mountain, 29,035 feet (8,850 meters) above sea level.

3 “He says, ‘Mom, I'm callingyou from the top of the world, '” Leigh Anne Drake said from California, where she had watched her son's progress on a GPS tracker online.

4 The teenager with long curly hair, who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa when he was nine, said he was inspired by a painting in his school hallway of the seven continents' highest summits. ①

5 “Every step I take is finally toward the biggest goal of my life, to stand on top of the world, ”②Jordan said on his blog earlier.

6 “I'm just very proud of him, ” Jordan's mother told the Associated Press by telephone just before he reached the peak.

7 When asked what she would say to him once he reached the summit, she started crying. “I can't really say that. It's just emotional.”

8 “Jordan's team leaves for Antarctica in December”, said Rb Bailey, the US-based spokesman for Jordan's climbing team.

9 “A piece of cake, ” his mother said.

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