De Silva family conquers Mount Everest |07 June 2018

Norman De Silva and daughter Cheyenne De Silva recently reached the peak of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

Standing at 8,848 metres, the Mount Everest is situated in the Himalayas in Nepal.

Having spent time in the Everest Base Camp for the last three months, training and learning how to climb the mountain safely, the father and daughter had their dream come true on May 31 when the two reached the summit of the mountain after 20 days of hiking.

Norman De Silva is well known to local sports, having been part of the Seychelles delegationsat the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games in Moscow, in the now defunct Soviet Union and Los Angeles in the United States of America as an official.

Mr De Silva also held the post of chairman of the Seychelles Basketball Federation from 1977-1984 and he was one of the founding members of the Seychelles National Olympic Committee (Snoc) which came into existence in 1979. Snoc’s name has since changed to the Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (Socga).

Locally, Mr De Silva had been climbing around the country, reaching the three peaks of ‘Trois Frères’ mountain.

Mount Everest has had a long history of victims, with reports of over 300 deaths, three already this year.

The two are currently in the descending phase and are due to touchdown in Seychelles on June 16.

R. R.