A 16-year-old Londoner strapped on his outdoor footwear and has become the youngest person in the world to climb the highest mountain in every continent.
George Atkinson, from south-west London, began the challenge in 2005 by scaling Kilimanjaro and completed it this week by reaching the summit of Mount Everest.
He had the climbing bug at the age of 11, completing Kili before going on to climb Russia's Mount Elbrus in 2007 and Indonesia's Carstensz Pyramid and Argentina's Mount Aconcagua in 2008.
Mount McKinley in North America was then swept aside followed by Mount Vinson in Antarctica.
"George has done it. He reached the summit at about 08:15 Nepali time," his mother Penny posted on his blog.
The teenager breaks the previous world record, held by 17-year-old Johnny Collinson.
