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                    [Title] => RP climbers scale coldest, highest peak in North America
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From the highest peak in the world, the First Philippine Mt. Everest Expedition team proceeded to North America to scale Denali, the coldest mountain on Earth,and add it to the list of peaks conquered by the intrepid Filipino climbers.


A few weeks after Leo Oracion and Pastor Emata reached the summit of Mount Everest, the team of Reggie Pablo, Carina Dayondon, Noel Wenceslao and Larry Honoridez left the country for Alaska to climb Denali, which meant "The Great One" in local language.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 331824 [Title] => Garduce mounts bid to be first Filipino on top of Mt. Everest [Summary] => Filipino high altitude climber, Romeo "Romi" Garduce, also known in the international mountaineering community as "Garduch"–has reached Everest’s Base Camp last April 3–the first step in realizing his goal to be the first Filipino to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330531 [Title] => Going BEYOND: Personal glory [Summary] => The spotlight is now focused on seasoned mountaineer Romi Garduce as he continue his quest not for personal glory, but rather his personal way of uplifting the lives of some of his less-fortunate countrymen.

Aiming at being the first Filipino to reach the summit of the famed Himalayan's Greatest - Mount Everest, Garduce teams up with network giant GMA NETWORK, INC. and The Northface, world-renowned manufacturer of expedition gear.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311475 [Title] => Mt. Everest just one of 127 peaks she conquered [Summary] => In 1975, Japanese Junko Tabei became the first-ever woman to reach the top of the tallest, most dreaded peak in the world — Mt. Everest.

Thirty years later, she’s unbelievably still at it.

The 66-year-old Tabei is here in the country to give some tips, advice and inspiration to the members of the first Philippine Team ever assembled to conquer the 8,848-meter peak in Nepal.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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