Climb every mountain
An 18-year-old woman has reached the summit of Mount Everest and is believed to be the youngest person to scale the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. “We made it to the top!” Samantha Larson, of Long Beach, Calif., gasped to her mother in New York via satellite phone from the top of Everest on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. According to 7summits.com, a website that tracks those who have accomplished the feat, completing the climb in Nepal makes Larson the youngest person to have completed the challenge, breaking a 2006 record set by then-20-year-old British climber Rhys Miles Jones. Larson has been climbing sky-high mountains since she was a child. She reached the summit of South America’s Aconcagua when she was 13 and Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro when she was 14.
Results are in: You’re fired!
“It’s a results-oriented business, and I didn’t get good enough results.”
Jeff Van Gundy, former Houston Rockets coach
High-priced commodities
A Mickey Mantle home uniform jersey from 1960 sold for $101,410 – about $40,000 more than his salary that year – as part of a $3 million auction conducted by Lelands on Saturday in Seaford, N.J. Other items that were auctioned included boxing gloves worn by Muhammad Ali – known as Cassius Clay when he used them in 1960 – for $47,824, Sugar Ray Robinson’s fight robe from his first pro fight ($32,664), a signed Roberto Clemente baseball ($28,934), and a 1954 Stan Musial game-worn jersey ($49,083). Jerseys were popular purchases. One Bobby Orr wore for the 1969-70 Boston Bruins fetched $83,810, a 1986 Tony Perez Cincinnati Reds jersey sold for $19,978, a game-worn Pele Santos jersey from the mid-1960s brought $12,594, and a 1990 game-worn Joe Montana 49ers jersey returned $10,408. Other highlights included a Mike Tyson-Robin Givens marriage license ($1,472).
