Welcome back Marco and Greg!

The Challenge8000 team will be arriving at the Malta International Airport on Friday, 2nd October, after successfully climbing Mount Cho Oyu, (8,201metres) the sixth highest mountain in the world.

Team members Gregory Attard and Marco Cremona will be landing at around 14:00 and will brief the press about the Cho Oyu expedition at 14:30 in the Conference Hall (next to the MIA chapel). Robert Gatt, the other Maltese team member will be in Malta later in the month.

Log of our successful Cho Oyu summit attempt

The Challenge8000 team has successfully reached the summit of Mt. Cho Oyu (8201m) on September 24th 2009 at 07.05am Nepal time (0325hrs Malta time). Greg Attard, Marco Cremona and Robert Gatt took just 8.5 hours to climb the 1050m from Camp 2 where they had been resting. They had climbed 700m from Camp 1 a few hours before. The ascent of Mt Cho Oyu, one of only  14 mountains over 8000m and the sixth highest in the world, is the highest that has been climbed by  Maltese nationals.

They made it to the summit!

All the three members of the challenge8000 team, Robert Gatt, Gregory Attard and Marco Cremona, have successfully climbed to the summit of Mount Cho Oyu at an elevation of 8,201metres. This is the first time ever that any Maltese climber has taken the Maltese flag on a mountain peak at that altitude.

Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world and the Maltese team is being led by Victor Saunders, a British mountain guide with long years of experience who has summited Mount Everest 4 times.