A 28-year-old Scottish climber, Peter Kinloch, was 600 feet into his descent from the top of Mount Everest when he lost his eyesight. 12 hours and only 200 feet later, his fellow climbers decided they had to leave him.

Jordan Romero, 13, from California has become the youngest person to climb the tallest mountain in the world. We predict it will be approximately three years until the first toddler makes the ascent. [BBC]