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.

The team members are as follows
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.