Who really is the 1st Filipino to have reached the summit of Mt. Everest?

Answer 1

i believe there are other Filipinos who reached Mt. Everest's summit way before Oracion and his team did. They just happen to be covered by the media and their expedition is shown on Philippine television, making it appear like they're the first.

Answer 2

It is Leo Oracion who is the first Filipino to climb Mount Everest on May 18, 2006.The 32-year-old Oracion reached the summit at 3:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. Philippine time).

This is a big accomplishment for a country at sea level withno experience with alpine conditions and would put the Philippines on the international mountaineering map.

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Answer 3

MANILA--(5TH UPDATE) ALPINE fever is gripping the tropical Philippines as mountaineer Leo Oracion conquered the world's highest peak and two compatriots were set to join him atop Mount Everest.
"The Philippine eagle has landed," Oracion was quoted as saying in a radio message to Arturo Valdez, leader of the First Philippine Mount Everest Expedition.

GMA Network’s “Flash Report” said the 32-year-old triathlete reached the top at about 5:30 p.m. (Manila time) or 3:30 p.m. in Nepal.

In a country where no mountain reaches 3,000 meters and the only ice is inside freezers, Oracion, his teammate Erwin Emata and rival climber Romeo Garduce were hailed as heroes as they labored up the southern slope of the 8,848-meter (29,028-foot) mountain.

Filipinos monitored the teams' progress online as well as their televised preparations.

In Malacañang, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo extended “heartfelt congratulations in behalf of the Filipino people.”

“He is the very picture









of hard work, tenacity, and courage. He has shown to the world the stuff Filipinos are made of,” the President said.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the successful ascent to Mount Everest showed the Filipinos’ “indomitable spirit” and that they were “equal to anyone in the world.”

"The entire nation is proud at what they are achieving," he said. “And that since Mt. Everest, all of 30,000 feet above sea level, you can imagine how the world will be looking at Filipinos being able to plant the Philippine flag on top of Mt. Everest."

In Oracion’s hometown of Lucban in Quezon province, his family and neighbors were glued to the television to monitor the blow-by-blow accounts of his ascent, according to the report.

Oracion’s mother was teary-eyed as she expressed happiness over her son’s triumphant climb, footage from the GMA-7 report showed. She recounted her son’s fondness for extreme sports since he was a kid.

Oracion began his journey towards the summit of Mount Everest early Saturday morning from the base camp, the GMA-7 report said.

Oracion had to break blocks of ice and make a path for himself while enduring the extreme cold and thin air to reach the top of the highest mountain in the world, the report added.

Meanwhile, Romeo Garduce, the other Filipino aiming to reach the summit is on his way to Everest’s Camp Three from Camp Two, which he left at about 7 a.m. (Nepal time), according to an earlier “Flash report” on Wednesday.

Garduce, 37, a systems analyst, is due to reach the summit on Friday, according the report.

Garduce said in his Internet diary this week that climbing on thin air requires "three breaths for every step," even as he stressed he was not competing with Oracion but said that the climb was for the benefit of Filipinos.

Network executives at both ABS-CBN--which is sponsoring Oracion's climb--and GMA Network have denied that there was a network race to the top of Everest amid published criticism from some sections of the local mountaineering community that they could get the three climbers killed.

"There is no such thing," said Rikki Escudero, assistant vice president of GMA-7 which put up 2.5 million pesos to finance Garduce's climb. She notes that "their [climbers'] lives are already at stake" just by their presence at the mountain.

"We are just focused on supporting Romy. If the other group reaches the summit first we will still cover them," she told Agence France-Presse.

"There is rising [viewer] interest because we are all hopeful that they will make it," Escudero said. "We think it's a worthy endeavor."

Garduce, who arrived at the Everest base camp in late March in a bid to follow the route taken more than 50 years earlier by Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Everest, said he saw himself "not just as a climber, but a gate-opener, a ribbon cutter."

"I may or may not climb the peak, but making the attempt alone already brings major significance in the history of mountaineering and adventure sports here, it means we are now taking on the challenge."

"I don't consider it as a race, because mountaineers know when to quit or to pace themselves," Tagara added.

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Answer 4

It's Leo Oracion

Answer 5

i think its leo heracio

Answer 6

rizal?

Answer 7

that would be me....i am............................