Advait Datar (13), a student of SelaQui International School, has scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, last week to become one of the youngest Indians endowed with the achievement. Mount Kilimanjaro is located at 5895 meters in Tanzania. It is an extinct volcano. Mount Kilimanjaro is also known as Uhuru peak meaning freedom in Swahili language and is considered to be a mountaineering wonder.
A team of seven students comprising Advait Datar, Smriti Garg, Pranjaal Wason, Rahul Chhachra, Ayush Pandey, Onkar Hans and Kshitij Kaushik escorted by Deovrat Badoni and Diya Bajaj started their journey on September 28 from the school. Average age of the team was 15 years.
Due to harsh condition, two students Advait and Smriti Garg (16 years) made it to the top of Uhuru peak on October 4. Advait says he is eager to get enrolled in NIM in Uttarkashi. His aim is to climb K2 next year and finally Everest in two years, he, further, said.
Speaking to the media persons, headmaster of the school, Sharfuddin said that the students should be encouraged to spend time with nature. “They should be inspired to challenge themselves,” he added. He, further, said that the mountaineering tradition is old in the school. “The students of the school go to Everest Base camp and Ladakh besides places in Uttarakhand,” he said.