When an 80-year-old Singaporean successfully summited the Philippines’ highest mountain on Wednesday, he recalled his experience in this way.
Climbing Mount Apo, according to Peter Chong, a retired in-flight services training director for a well-known airline, was an adventure unlike any other.
“I have climbed many mountains, but this Mount Apo is incomparable to anywhere I have climbed. It is really an adventure,”
Peter Chong
When Chong arrived at the Barangay Kapatagan jump-off site, Digos tourism officer Perla May Demafeliz Griffin greeted him with a bunch of flowers.
Chong also thanked his mountain guides, Jowayn Paul Bagaoi and Allen Dale Griffin, for their assistance throughout the journey.
“He measures every step to make sure I am safe. They took very good care (of me),” he told Griffin about his guides.
A 78-year-old retired engineer set the record on March 19.
“He (Peter Chong) saw the (Facebook) post we had regarding the oldest climber of Mt. Apo two months ago. He contacted his friend who knows me to make the arrangement. The rest is history,” Griffin said to ABS-CBN News.
