On 12 May, the team caught the sunset at Annapurna Base Camp. Then on 13 May, the team managed to catch the breathtaking view of the sunrise. With time to spare, they headed to Mount Himchuli (6,.441m) as an alpine mountaineer special training exercise and made it up to 6,000 metres before bad weather hampered their summit. However, despite the bad weather it was an exhilarating and rare experience for any team to hit the Annapurna Base Camp twice within 24 hours! Documenting the climb was important for Shukri as way of encouraging the rest of his countrymen to follow. As he sets his eyes on the next target the
Everest Base Camp in 2017 more will follow in his footsteps. to training and getting ready trekking from his bucket list.
he is confident that For now, it’s back to strike off one more
Shukri will attempt his first solo climb to the Everest Base Camp in November,
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Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2016 Nov-Dec, pages 54-54. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.
