Romi Garduce has just set the record of the first Filipino to scale the "Seven Summits," the seven highest mountains of the seven continents of the world.
He reached his seventh summit, Mt. Vinson Massif in Antarctica, yesterday, January 6, 2012 at 5:45 AM (Philippine time).
Vinson Massif is 16,067-foot high and is the sixth highest in the world. It is considered as the coldest, though, making it one of the toughest to climb. Temperature drops to as low as –40 at any given time. It was a tough –26 when Romi was there.
A UP Mountaineer, Garduce climbed his first of the seven mountains, South Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro in, way back in 2002. South America's Mt. Aconcagua was next in 2005. He followed it up by climbing Asia's Mt. Everest in 2006, Europe's Mt. Elbrus in 2007, North America's Denali Peak in 2008, Australia's Mt. Kosciousko in 2008 and Oceana's Carstenz Pyramid last July.
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