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RI MOUNTAINEERS TO RAISE NATIONAL FLAG ON MT ELBRUS, RUSSIA
Batam, Indonesia, Aug 15 (ANTARA) - Three Indonesian mountain climber teams are ready to raise the red-and-white national flag on the peak of Mount Elbrus in Russia to mark the country's independence anniversary.
"In consideration of the changing weather and field conditions the summit attack will probably start at 2am on August 16 or 17. The climb will take eight to 10 hours," Budi Hartono Purnomo (51) from the Elbrus Mahitala-Eiger Expedition team, who had arrived at Pastukhova Rock (4,600m) along with his team mate Go Sie Ling (51), told ANTARA on Saturday.
Budi and Sie Ling, who call themselves the Indonesian Independence Day team, departed from Jakarta on August 9. The climbing of the highest peak in Russia and Europe (5,642 meter above sea level) in the Caucasus mountain range began from Moscow and passed through Terskol and Chaget.
The team is now ready to start scaling Mount Elbrus.
Besides Budi and Sie Ling, two senior members of the Nature Loving Student Group of Parahyangan Catholic University, there are also Franky Kowaas (46) from the Indonesia Mountaineering Federation they happened to meet with the Mahitala-Eiger in Terkol and also Miranti, Yanua and Willy from TVOne they met in Garatbashi who are also climbing the mountain.
"The three teams seem to climb to the peak together but when they will start towards the peak has not yet been determined," Budi said. Budi in 2007 successfully climbed the Kilimanjaro peak in Africa (5,896 m) and in 2008 the Aconcagua (6,962 ) in America.
"The field in Elbrus is hard. From the height of 3,000 m the field is covered with 10 to 16 cm snow. The weather is changing. In Pastukhova Rock the weather in the afternoon is minus 13 degree Celcius," Budi, an insurence industry practitioner, said.
Sie Ling meanwhile is a female mountaineer who has several times climbed mountains in Nepal and Aconcagua. She started the highest mountain climbing adventure in 1983 by climbing the Jayawijaya mountain in Papua, Indonesia, while she was still a university student. She later joined the Parahyangan University Maoke Mahitala Expedition.
On their way to conquer the highest mountain in Europe from Terskol to Chaget, Sie Ling and Budi chose to go on foot rather than by cable car.
They also refused to go by car on the way from Garabahsi to Pastukhova Rock.
For Sie Ling the climbing to Pastukhova Rock is important for acclimatization besides the implemetation of the lesson taught at Mahitala namely the way to a success is not always easy.
"We are trained at Mahitala like that. We come from afar and find an ice mountain that we can climb and so will do it," the resident of Maribaya, Lembang, Bandung, said.***
"In consideration of the changing weather and field conditions the summit attack will probably start at 2am on August 16 or 17. The climb will take eight to 10 hours," Budi Hartono Purnomo (51) from the Elbrus Mahitala-Eiger Expedition team, who had arrived at Pastukhova Rock (4,600m) along with his team mate Go Sie Ling (51), told ANTARA on Saturday.
Budi and Sie Ling, who call themselves the Indonesian Independence Day team, departed from Jakarta on August 9. The climbing of the highest peak in Russia and Europe (5,642 meter above sea level) in the Caucasus mountain range began from Moscow and passed through Terskol and Chaget.
The team is now ready to start scaling Mount Elbrus.
Besides Budi and Sie Ling, two senior members of the Nature Loving Student Group of Parahyangan Catholic University, there are also Franky Kowaas (46) from the Indonesia Mountaineering Federation they happened to meet with the Mahitala-Eiger in Terkol and also Miranti, Yanua and Willy from TVOne they met in Garatbashi who are also climbing the mountain.
"The three teams seem to climb to the peak together but when they will start towards the peak has not yet been determined," Budi said. Budi in 2007 successfully climbed the Kilimanjaro peak in Africa (5,896 m) and in 2008 the Aconcagua (6,962 ) in America.
"The field in Elbrus is hard. From the height of 3,000 m the field is covered with 10 to 16 cm snow. The weather is changing. In Pastukhova Rock the weather in the afternoon is minus 13 degree Celcius," Budi, an insurence industry practitioner, said.
Sie Ling meanwhile is a female mountaineer who has several times climbed mountains in Nepal and Aconcagua. She started the highest mountain climbing adventure in 1983 by climbing the Jayawijaya mountain in Papua, Indonesia, while she was still a university student. She later joined the Parahyangan University Maoke Mahitala Expedition.
On their way to conquer the highest mountain in Europe from Terskol to Chaget, Sie Ling and Budi chose to go on foot rather than by cable car.
They also refused to go by car on the way from Garabahsi to Pastukhova Rock.
For Sie Ling the climbing to Pastukhova Rock is important for acclimatization besides the implemetation of the lesson taught at Mahitala namely the way to a success is not always easy.
"We are trained at Mahitala like that. We come from afar and find an ice mountain that we can climb and so will do it," the resident of Maribaya, Lembang, Bandung, said.***
