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Climber Leads Expedition for Corporate Executives

WEDNESDAY, 29 AUGUST 2007

One of the world’s top climbers, Malli Mastan Babu recently led an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro as part of his new career as treks and expeditions trainer to corporate executives. With him during the said expedition was some of the executives from India.

The team comprised K. Jayshanker of Empowered Learning Systems from Pune, Ulhas Deshpande, the COO of Adventity from Mumbai, Umar Teekay, the managing director of Teekays Interior Solutions from Bangalore and P. Shreekanth, the IT security in-charge of Centurion Bank from Mumbai.

They started the climb on August 10 and reached the summit on the morning of August 15. The team descended two days later. With this climb, Malli became the first Indian to summit the mountain thrice and Shreekanth, who has polio in his right hand, became the first disabled person from India to make it to the top of Uhuru.

While Malli oversaw the mountaineering matters, Jayshanker looked after leadership and personality development. “He gave us case studies. We interacted and analysed to understand how the day’s activities were educative,” said Malli.“We wanted to design an expedition where the participants had to stretch themselves to achieve goals. We also wanted to relate the experiences to work,” said Jayshanker.

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