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Emma Schwerin, 17, summited Everest this spring to complete the Seven Summits — the youngest woman ever to do so — climbing alongside her father. An…
By Laxman Rawal · Jun 11, 2026
Among the 1,008 people who stood on top of Everest this spring, one stands out for the record she carried down. Emma Schwerin, a 17-year-old from Bozeman, Montana, became the youngest American woman ever to summit Everest — and in doing so completed the Seven…
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Emma's story began, fittingly, with a trek. Captivated as a schoolgirl by the story of the 1996 Everest disaster, she walked the 100-odd kilometres to Everest Base Camp — and came home determined to climb. In late 2023 she and her father Sam set out on the…
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