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Climb training for corporate challenge CHANDREYEE CHATTERJEE Malli Mastan Babu atop Mount Kilimanjaro After scaling the seven highest peaks in seven continents in record time, IIT and IIM alumnus Malli Mastan Babu has taken the first step towards using treks and expeditions to offer leadership training to corporate executives. The 33-year-old recently led an expedition to Uhuru (Mount Kilimanjaro), the highest peak in

Hearts beat for India, five head honchos unfurl Tricolour on Mt Kilimanjaro Pune-based management trainer conceived the exercise that combined patriotism with management lessons Sunanda Mehta Pune, August 21: If Kavita Gadgil, founder of Abhijeet Air Safety Foundation, unfurled a replica of the first tricolour hoisted by freedom fighter Madame Bhikaiji Cama in Stuttgart University, Germany this Independence Day to commemorate 60 years of Independence, five head honchos from Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore and Nellore climbed up the snow-covered Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to do the same on August 15. The feat was no ordinary achievement. For, barring one, none of the climbers were professional mountaineers for whom the only peaks till now were the kinds that displayed their company’s performance chart. Yet, in Tanzania they battled icy winds and inhospitable terrain as a part of Reach for the Sky expedition that aimed at reaching Kilimanjaro, rated

This is a true story of a team of five that successfully attained summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro on the historic day of 15 th August, a special date for India; and that too against odds that would have not been easy for professional mountaineers. Look at the odds against this small group of not so young mountaineers in their late 40s except for the team leader, the able and professional mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu who has the distinction of being the fasters 7 seven summiter in the world http://www.1stindian7summits.com/default.html. The team had no prior mountaineering experience It chose the second toughest of the three main routes to reach the summit The average fitness of the team was very low To compound that the team for the first time joined on the 8 th August to begin the trek It further decided to stopover by sleeping in a crator that is not normally done by most people (in fact many people descending after the summit mentioned that the spot was very cold