Air Malta backing Challenge8000

Air Malta is supporting the Challenge 8000 team in its endeavour to be the first Maltese group of climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest in May next year.

Air Malta is assisting the team, made up of Marco Cremona, Gregory Attard and Robert Gatt with travel requirements to enable them to train for the challenge.

The national carrier has already assisted the team with their travels to the UK, where they successfully reached the summits of 39 mountains in the Lake District in just three days.

On June 26, the team began a 10-day training expedition in the French Alps, where they met up with their Everest guide Victor Saunders, who led them up various mountain peaks and trained them in skills such as rock climbing, ascending, belaying, crevasse rescue, ice climbing and traversing snow ridges with 500-metre drops on either side.