The best view comes after the hardest climb ... and one team of Bahraini mountaineers have the photographs to prove it.
The Bahrain Royal Guard’s expedition 16-member team made headlines around the globe last month after it became the first international crew to conquer the new altitude of Mount Everest – 8,848.86 metres – around 86 centimetres higher than the previous measurement carried out in 1954.
In an exclusive interview with the GDN’s Sandeep Singh Grewal, the team’s leader Shaikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Khalifa – who unfurled the Bahrain flag on top of Mount Everest on May 11 – spoke about navigating through the peaks and rough routes, surviving the extreme conditions and conquering the mountain.
SHAIKH Mohammed bin Hamad Al Khalifa successfully led a team from one of the smallest nations to scale the tallest mountain in the world on a 79-day mission to scale the summit.
Today, for the first time, he shares details of the daring adventure. The Bahrain Everest team’s hazardous journey included going hours without food and water as they rose to the challenge which included facing a mountain of health issues, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I volunteered for this mission after His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa wanted to set a team from the Royal Guard to be part of the Everest mission, and I was assigned the team leader,” Shaikh Mohammed, who holds the rank of Major in the unit of the Bahrain Defence Force.
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