Headlines § e-mail § Publisher details § rates & data § links Est. 1996 Issue 142 Weekly News - Monday 1st December 2008 Sussex Restaurateur Reaches His Peak     Shah Athar of Café Rasoi in Sussex is back from his Mt Kilimanjaro trip, relatively in one piece. He reports "It was great fun but very hard work with not the best of weather conditions. Even the experienced trekkers/climbers that we encountered found the going very tough. One of my team even had to be carried down half way after we exhausted ourselves climbing and reaching the summit. I myself should not have climbed on summit day as I was suffering from a very high temperature and very bad cold, but me being my usual stubborn self, decided having come this far, although exhausted, I would risk going up. Indeed, I managed to reach the summit on sheer will power alone for which I am even proud of myself for". Speaking to the guides and some of the officials afterwards, Shah also believes that he may in fact be the first ever Bangladeshi to have climbed and reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro (5895M), which in itself is another achievement. No time to rest, hoever, as he opened his fourth venture, 'Flamin' Joe's' recently and his fifth, 'Mr India' sometime in the New Year.

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