Thursday 22 September 2011

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DURING the September holidays Matthew van Marken, in Grade 9 at Bridge House, summitted Mont Blanc in Switzerland.

After five days in the Alps, only five out of the fifteen members of the expedition, which included Matthew’s dad Tony, made the summit.

The route to Mont Blanc is very long and has a success rate of only 10-15%. Climbing in fresh snow and bitterly cold temperatures (-20º), makes this summit an incredible feat of endurance and shows the ‘can do’ attitude which Matthew displays and which makes all at Bridge House so proud of him.

This is not a first for Matthew. At age thirteen and again at fourteen, he climbed Kilimanjaro. At age thirteen, he summitted Mount Meru (Tanzania’s second highest peak and part of the African seven summits) and last year he climbed Ol Doinyo Lengai (Africa’s only active volcano).

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