Team Everest To Reach Mt. Everest Summit Soon!

[chua_riwap]

Romi Garduce Waiting for ‘Midnight Assault’

IF any Filipino could reach the summit of Mount Everest in the next few days, he would plant the Philippine flag on it by high noon—after climbing the whole night toward the world’s tallest peak, hopefully with the weather calm and cooperative.

Romi Garduce, the Pinoy most likely to first reach the summit, revealed this plan on Friday, even as he said he is still cooling his heels at the Everest Base Camp for his planned “midnight assault.” “Garduch” is also waiting for sherpas hired by the Nepalese government to fix the routes from Camp 4 toward the peak of the 29,035-foot mountain, even as he prepares himself mentally for the difficult journey ahead.

“Actually, as soon as the summit is opened and we hear news that someone has stepped on the peak—meaning the ‘fix lines’ are finished, I will proceed to Camp 2 and rest for a day,” said the 37-year-old Garduce, who’s backed by gear maker The North Face. “I would then proceed to Camp 3 and rest a bit. That’s the last place I reached recently,” the seasoned climber from Balanga, Bataan, added. “Then I’ll go straight to Camp 4, and that’s where the ‘assault’ begins.”

Garduce, an information technology specialist when not adventuring, said he and his guides will rest about 3 to 4 hours at Camp 4 before setting out for Everest’s summit at nightfall, all the while praying for good weather to aid their way.

Sudden snowstorms and the subzero conditions have claimed the life of many climber at Everest, but Garduce said he would be careful not to stretch himself or his supply of oxygen, which he will use from Camp 4 onward.

“Definitely, we’ll start using oxygen from there. We’ll be walking all night until the morning. Hopefully we get there [summit] before lunch, and the good weather holds.”

Philippine TV giant GMA Network is covering Garduce’s climb and is preparing just as meticulously as the intrepid adventurer.

GMA’s crew is testing its generators and C-band satellite equipment for regular transmissions of the clear, crisp images of the icy, desolate landscape and mountainous terrain that Garduce hopes to climb and summit before the Everest climbing season closes at the end of the month.

Climbers who dream of “summitting” Everest can only do so during the warm summer month of May, when the mountain, the highest in the world, thaws a little bit. The narrow window for climbing closes by June, and Everest stands impregnable and impossible to climb for the rest of the year.


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Yes! At last, meron na ring Pinoy, na makakaakyat sa summit ng Mt. Everest, soon, and this is Romi Garduce (sponsored by GMA 7)

Meron ding team ang ABS-CBN, na paakyat din sa Mt. Everest. Confusing nga lang kasi, pag sa Ch. 2 ka manonood, sila naman "daw" ang una sa Mt. Everest. He-he! Ano ba talaga, Kuya?

Anyway, kahit sino sa kanila mauna, lahat naman sila PINOY! Saludo po kami sa inyong kakayahan. At dasal po namin na maakyat niyo nang maayos at ligtas ang summit at makabalik kayo ng Pinas ng maluwalhati!

MABUHAY PO KAYO!

[falken]

Good Luck to the Mt. Everest climbing team!

[Isuzoom]

kahit sino mauna basta Philippine flag ang ilagay wag TV stations logo...pati ba naman sa Everest contest pa kayo?

[nugundam93]

kahit sino mauna basta Philippine flag ang ilagay wag TV stations logo...pati ba naman sa Everest contest pa kayo?

hehehehe.

[ILuvDetailing]

goodluck to Romi Garduce.

[flakez]

bakita kaya pabalik-balik pa sila? ung pabalik-balik ng base camp. bat hindi na lang tuloy-tuloy

[Isuzoom]

bakita kaya pabalik-balik pa sila? ung pabalik-balik ng base camp. bat hindi na lang tuloy-tuloy

climatizing ang tawag dyan and waiting for the right favorable weather. Kahit dito sa atin once nasa taas kana bigla drop ng temp pag gabi sobrang lamig pag body mo di sanay sa low temp na place.

[flakez]

climatizing ang tawag dyan and waiting for the right favorable weather. Kahit dito sa atin once nasa taas kana bigla drop ng temp pag gabi sobrang lamig pag body mo di sanay sa low temp na place.

ah ganon pala un. kala ko nagpapagod lang sila. hehehe

[BoEinG_747]

Meron ding team ang ABS-CBN, na paakyat din sa Mt. Everest. Confusing nga lang kasi, pag sa Ch. 2 ka manonood, sila naman "daw" ang una sa Mt. Everest. He-he! Ano ba talaga, Kuya?

kakatuwa talaga itong "kapuso at kapamilya"
pati ba naman pag akyat ng bundok,

[ownertype]

Goodluck Kuya Romy!

[kimpOy]

Romi Garduce Waiting for ‘Midnight Assault’


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Yes! At last, meron na ring Pinoy, na makakaakyat sa summit ng Mt. Everest, soon, and this is Romi Garduce (sponsored by GMA 7)

Meron ding team ang ABS-CBN, na paakyat din sa Mt. Everest. Confusing nga lang kasi, pag sa Ch. 2 ka manonood, sila naman "daw" ang una sa Mt. Everest. He-he! Ano ba talaga, Kuya?

Anyway, kahit sino sa kanila mauna, lahat naman sila PINOY! Saludo po kami sa inyong kakayahan. At dasal po namin na maakyat niyo nang maayos at ligtas ang summit at makabalik kayo ng Pinas ng maluwalhati!

MABUHAY PO KAYO!

actually this is a product of the network war

there are actually 3 team climbing to the summit...
abs cbn actually was the first one to broadcast but it was slated in 2007, but GMA 7 went ahead with garduce this year so inagahan na rin ng abs cbn ang team nila

yung 3rd is a lone climber...

[theveed]

Sangdamakmak na taong nakaakyat sa everest, what's the big deal???

[BoEinG_747]

Sangdamakmak na taong nakaakyat sa everest, what's the big deal???

oo nga iyon mga taga Nepal nga akyat manaog na lang doon ,.di ba ang Nepalese ang may record ng highest peak

[yebo]

and in fact there is already a filipino who had done so. nakita ko sa news (abc-5 yata) may feature silang pinoy na ofw na naka-akyat na sa mt everest. he funded his climb with his own money and joined a group from other nationalities when he climbed mt everest. kung maghahanap daw ng proof na naka-akyat na siya dun tignan lang daw yung registry sa nepal andun daw name nya at nationality. he said ayaw daw sana nya magsalita pero pinilit sya ng mga kamaganak nya.

so much for the network wars of abs-cbn and gma-7, too late da hero na kayo!

[niky]

Ahaha.... may online na source kaya para sa registry? Patingin nga...

[cutedoc]

so pati sa mt everest unahan pa din 2 at 7...

Ot: mas ok me competition, u could see the best and worst of it all, smart and globe, sm and robinson, at madami pang iba...

[kimpOy]

bossing yebo, hindi yata umabot sa summit si aquino (yung tinutukoy mo) hanggang base camp lang yata siya...

reports that the philippines team and garduce's team are helping one another...
imho thats one lesson we should be learning ( no more crab mentality)

yung 3rd climber (Dale Abenojar) wala akong balita... down kasi ang 4x4ph.com

[chua_riwap]

bossing yebo, hindi yata umabot sa summit si aquino

Oo, Sir Kimps, kinorek na yang issue na yan nung Pinoy na OFW mismo. Sa Island Peak siya umakyat, katabi ng Mt. Everest, much lower than the summit of Everest. Pero malaking achievement na rin yun.

Anyway.....Kaya ng mga PINOY yan! Goodluck na lang sa Everest Team!

[jerkky]

sa column ni beth celis sa inquirer, nag pack-up na daw si dale abenojar. hindi yata nakayanan, miss niya family niya. yung lamig saka hirap kaya niya, pero yung malayo ng matagal sa pamilya tapos may possibility pa na hindi na ulit sila makita, hindi siguro nakayanan. naiintindihan ko siya.

[van_wilder]

yun only girl sa philippine team, friend ko... before sila umakyat ng mount everest, inakyat muna nila yun mga ibang matataas na mountains... years in preparation... lagi siyang leave sa trabaho and grabe ang training... once in a blue moon na nga lang namin siya makita eh... they started 15, ngayon ilan na lang sila... sana makayanan nila... good luck to all of them!