Carstenz Pyramid, Papua New Guinea. one of the 7 Summits.

A small team from the Territorial Army and Royal Marine Reserve are working towards their goal of climbing the seven highest summits on each continent. Raj is the leader for many of these climbs.

So far the team have climbed 5 of these summits:

Everest (8,848m Asia)
Aconcagua (6962m,South America)
Denali (6,194m, North America)
Kilimanjaro (5,895m, Africa)
Elbrus (5,641m, Europe)

The remaining summits in the challenge include:

Carstenz Pyramid(4,844m Australasia)
Vinson (Antarctica 4,897m

In addition to these, 5 members of the team recently summited Cho Oyo (6th highest in the world at at 8201m).

This was by way of a training expedition to prepare for Everest and was the smallest British military expedition ever to attempt an 8000m peak. It also had the most successful summiters on an 8000m peak of any British military expedition bringing the total to 17 people ever.

The next phase of the project is to climb the remaining 2 peaks; Carstenz Pyramid (Australasia) and Vinson (Antarctica).

Here are a few words of support.....


"The seven summits are a diverse group of peaks including the coldest and highest mountain in the world. I wish the very best of luck to the Project 7 Summits team."

Chris Bonnington

"Project 7 Summits admirably demonstrates the qualities of the Reservist: love of challenge, adaptability and determination in large measure. I urge you to support this gallant effort."

The Duke of Westminster.

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Raj has now headed of to Papua Guinea, to tackle Carstenz Pyramid. One of the seven summits..

here is a note from Raj ..

So far what a journey.

Flew to Bali via Kuala Lumpur and today flew to Sulawesi, which is one of the Sunda Islands in Indonesia. Have another 3 dodgy flights to go even before we make it to the start of the route!

We probably won't make it to the start of the route for another couple of days. In a few hours we fly to Biak, which is on an island just off West Papua before flying onto the mainland on another flight shortly afterwards.

The whole team is in good spirits, if not jaded from all the travelling. I'm still jaded from the Comic Relief party! Hopefully things will settle down once we are on the route proper. The route is sounding pretty wild and remote. Better go and wake the others up as getting ready to leave for the flight soon.

Cheers guys for now.

Raj.