Pinay is top foreigner in Mt. Everest race
Good News Pilipinas
Carina Dayondon was the first among foreign female climbers to finish the 2008 Hillary-Tenzing Mount Everest Marathon, tagged as the highest marathon in the world.
Carina one of the three Filipinas who scaled Mount Everest last year, came in behind seven Nepali women who joined the race.
She together with the other five other Filipino participants triumphantly reached the finish line in Nepal.
The prime slot in the men’s division went to a Japanese national.
Dayondon’s fellow Everest veterans Noelle Wenceslao and Erwin “Pastor” Emata, and other members of the First Philippine Mount Everest Expedition (FPMEE) team, namely Dr. Ted Esguerra and Fred Jamili, composed the six-man team.
The marathon was not a race to the top of Mount Everest but was a 42-kilometer race from the Mount Everest base camp at the Nepal or south side at an altitude of 17,149 feet, to the town of Namche Bazar, which is at an altitude of 11,300.
The marathon route runs over rough and treacherous trails and while the course is basically downhill, it has two steep uphill sections, according to race organizers.
The 6th Hillary-Tenzing marathon 2008 was organized to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the climb to the summit of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepali sherpa, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.
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