November 22, 2008
TATA Steel team completes Mt Kilimanjaro expedition
TATA Steel has announced that its nine member expedition team, led by legendary Ms Bachendri Pal, successfully climbed the World's tallest free standing mountain Mount Kilimanjaro. As a part of TATA Steel's centenary celebrations, the team created history when they completed 19335 feet climb on June 29th 2008.
The Indian team had left for Tanzania on June 23rd 2008 and after four days of training in which they were informed about the challenges of taking up the Machame route for the expedition, they began their journey on June 28th 2008 and completed it within 24 hours.
On the team’s arrival in Tanzania, they were informed about the challenges of taking up the Machame route for the Expedition. They were discouraged from taking that path. However, the determination of the all women team led by an equally steadfast and courageous leader, Ms Bachendri Pal was unaltered and the team did not falter to take up the route decided earlier. A brilliant display of resilience and tenacity inspite of facing high altitude sickness and acclimatization problems because of low oxygen, the team stuck together. A felicitation was organized for the team on behalf of The African Government to acknowledge their spirit of adventure.
Ms Bachendri Pal, leader and chief of TATA Steel Adventure Foundation
Ms Lovely Das, Ms Rajal Patel, Ms Sushma Bissa, Ms Parul Sah, Ms L Annapurna, Ms Premlata Agarwal, Ms Chetna Sahoo, Ms Anita Soren.
Ms Christina John Mlowe joined the team in Tanzania. She is a Tanzanian National working in TATA Africa sales unit.
TATA Steel Centenary Indo – African Expedition to Mt Kilimanjaro is a tribute to the glorious 100 years of TATA Steel by TSAF. It re enforces the philosophy of the company which believes that Sports is a way of Life at TATA Steel. Ms Bachendri Pal takes up challenging assignments of this nature with an all women team and it is always supported by TATA Steel. It strongly believes in women empowerment and since its inception has left no stone unturned to promote adventures like this.
The team is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on July 6th 2008. The team members are as follows
