Jakarta - The Youth and Sports Ministry on Monday announced a team of six mountain climbers who will embark on a perilous two-and-a-half-year expedition to become the first Indonesians to climb the seven highest mountains of the seven continents.
“There will be no mountain too high for our climbers to put up our red-and-white national flag,” said minister Andi Alifian Mallarangeng on the sidelines of Monday’s announcement of the Rp 12 billion Seven Summits Climbing Expedition.
The team consists of five male climbers Ardeshir Yaftebbi, 26, Iwan Irawan, 38, Martin Rimbawan, 28, Fajri Al Luthfi, 28, Nurhuda, 23 and female climber Gina Afriani, 22.
The first mountain the team will attempt is the 4884-meter-high summit of Carstensz Pyramid of the Jayawijaya Moutain Range, Papua.
After that comes, the 5892-meter-high summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and then Mount Elbrus in Russia, altitude 5642 meters, Mount Vinson Massif, Antartica, altitude 4897 meters, Mount McKinley, Alaska, altitude 6194 meters, Mount Aconcagua, Argentina, altitude 6962 meters and finally Mount Everest, Nepal, altitude 8850 meters.— JP
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“There will be no mountain too high for our climbers to put up our red-and-white national flag,” said minister Andi Alifian Mallarangeng on the sidelines of Monday’s announcement of the Rp 12 billion Seven Summits Climbing Expedition.
The team consists of five male climbers Ardeshir Yaftebbi, 26, Iwan Irawan, 38, Martin Rimbawan, 28, Fajri Al Luthfi, 28, Nurhuda, 23 and female climber Gina Afriani, 22.
The first mountain the team will attempt is the 4884-meter-high summit of Carstensz Pyramid of the Jayawijaya Moutain Range, Papua.
After that comes, the 5892-meter-high summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and then Mount Elbrus in Russia, altitude 5642 meters, Mount Vinson Massif, Antartica, altitude 4897 meters, Mount McKinley, Alaska, altitude 6194 meters, Mount Aconcagua, Argentina, altitude 6962 meters and finally Mount Everest, Nepal, altitude 8850 meters.— JP
Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com