Alpine Club Malaysia Confident Of Completing Mission To Scale Seven Summits

SEPANG (Selangor, Malaysia) Feb 3 (Bernama) -- The Alpine Club Malaysia is confident that its team will be able to complete the Malaysian Grand Slam Expedition 2020 to scale seven summits in seven continents after their success in conquering Mt Aconcagua in Argentina last month. Its president, Muhammad Illaham Ishak, he was proud and grateful that the team, which includes himself, had managed to reach the summit of Mt Aconcagua, which meant a lot in their #climbforpeace and #waterforsyria mission. Other members of the team are Wan Azman Wan Mahmud, 39, Zainudin Lot, 40, and Ayob Yahya, 53. "We are also proud to have been able to fly the Malaysian flag on the highest summit in South America in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of Malaysian independence," he told reporters upon the team's arrival at the KL International Airport here today. With their latest success, only two summits were left for the team to scale, namely Mt McKinnley in North America and Mt Vinson Massif in Antarctica. The team had so far scaled Mt Everest, which is the highest summit in Asia, Mt Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mt Elbrus (Europe) and Mt Kosuizcko (Australasia). The expedition to scale Mt Aconcagua was the third in their #climbforpeace and #waterforsyria mission after the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the club and Aman Palestin Bhd last April. The MoU was to promote efforts to raise fund to build a clean water well in war torn areas in Syria. Donations can still be made to Aman Palestin's Maybank account number 562263010787. -- BERNAMA