Jordan Romero, from Big Bear, California, became the youngest person to scale Mount Everest Saturday. He reached the 29,035-foot summit with his father Paul Romero, his father's girlfriend Karen Lundgren and three Sherpa guides.

He broke the record set by Temba Tsheri of Nepal, who reached the peak at age 16.

Romero is only one climb away from achieving his goal of climbing the highest peaks on all seven continents. The last peak is Vinson Massif in Antarctica and he hopes to conquer that sometime around the end of the year.

There had been some debate over whether a teenager should be allowed to attempt this. His Father Paul Romero told reporters "Nothing irresponsible about what we did. We were so prepared, everything went perfect. Age has nothing to do with anything,".

Romero made it off the mountain safely Wednesday and is looking forward to seeing his friends and family after the hard climb.