An Everest Ethics Question

Tyler Armstrong is 12 years old. He likes to play laser tag. He’s learning to play guitar. And this spring he's heading to China, where he will attempt to summit the world's highest mountain. In this episode, an ethical debate: how young is too young to climb Mount Everest?

Tyler Armstrong talks to a local news station last year about his Everest climb.

Tyler Armstrong was 9 years old when we first met him and he was just about to become the youngest person ever to climb Argentina's Mount Aconcagua. Like all his climbs before this, it was for a very important cause-to help raise money and awareness of a rare type of Muscular Dystrophy called Duchenne.