Tuesday, April 06, 2010

There is always someone else bigger/faster/smarter/stronger

A 13-year-old California boy plans to try to climb Mount Everest in a quest to reach the summits of the highest peaks on all seven continents.

My favourite line in this article is his mothers, "She said her son is taking two months of homework to Nepal so he can keep up with school." If your son has climbed five of the tallest peaks in the world, I don't think his primary driver in life is the U.S public school curriculum.

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