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The youngest climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest hugged his tearful companions and told them he loved them. Then 13-year-old Jordan Romero took the satellite phone and called his mother. “He says, ‘Mom, I’m calling you from the top of the world,’ ” a giddy Leigh Anne Drake told The Associated Press from California, where she had been watching her son’s progress minute by minute on a GPS tracker online. “There were lots of tears and ‘I love you! I love you!’ ” Drake said. “I just told him to get his butt back home.” The world’s highest mountain is 29,035 feet above sea level. The Associated Press

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