Oracion reaches Mt. Everest

[stubburn]

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wheeee...kudos to him! so proud! yeeeey...he made it! we made it!

bows down!! proud to be pinoy!

[r0mm3L]

btaw what happen to romi's team?

[Nezumix22]

Romy is at Camp 3 and will be the next to reach the summit, I wager.. Yet another achievement for the Filipinos..

[samsungster]

Emata reaches Everest summit.Mountaineer Erwin "Pastour" Emata has reached the summit of Mount Everest at dawn Thursday.

Correspondent Abner Mercado cited information from expedition leader Arturo Valdez, who said that Emata stepped on the peak of the 8,848-meter mountain at 5:34 a.m. (7:34 a.m. in Manila). Mercado and fellow correspondent Vince Rodriguez are with the rest of the expedition at Everest Base Camp.

Valdez said Emata, a Davao native, called him up by radio to confirm word he has climbed the top of the world's highest mountain.

"We we're stunned [and] excited," Valdez told Rodriguez in an interview after Emata's successful climb.

Emata was the second Filipino climber to reach Everest's peak following Heracleo "Leo" Oracion. Oracion became the first Filipino to scale Everest's peak at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Oracion became the first Filipino to reach the summit of Everest Wednesday. He made it safely back to Camp 4 of the world's tallest mountain Thursday night.

[baron]

This is something that we can be proud of. The Philippine flag is now placed at the highest peak of the world. This is considered a success not for the networks who brought coverage to the expedition but to the mountaineers and more importantly, to the country.

Congratulations!

[bcasabee]

congratulations

[Freeza]

err who's that guy in the news that climbed via tibet his wife says he got there before oracion but was not in the media circle because he was on other side china tibet route....

[nHaRuToH_XXX]

proud to be pinoy

[north_star]

a round of applause for all filipinos. this is really good news, something to be proud of.

[omad]

:mrgreen: two thumbs up!!! :mrgreen: