Saya berasal dari anak Tanime, kalau Bapak Perlu berkomunikasi mengenai wilayah gunung Juliana atau mandala silakan hubungi alamat diatas ini

Terimakasih atas kerja samanya

A press release about Ricky Munday’s forthcoming attempt to climb this and two other Papuan giants….

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FORMER RUGBY CHAMP RICKY MUNDAY ARRIVES IN PAPUA PROVINCE – PREPARES FOR TREK TO PUNCAK MANDALA – FIRST OF 3 HIGHEST PEAKS HE HOPES TO SUMMIT IN SIX-WEEK CLIMBING EXPEDITION

London, November 23, 2010 – Ricky Munday, 33, today announced that he has arrived in Jayapura, Papua Province for his six week Australasia 3 Peaks Glacier Expedition. Munday will fly to Bime in the Star Mountains tomorrow morning from where he will start the trek to the base camp of Puncak Mandala (4,684m), the first of the three peaks he will attempt to summit during the six-week expedition. He will use porters from the Ngalum tribe to gain local support and reduce the risk of Papuan separatist groups interfering with his solo attempt to summit Puncak Mandala.

The other mountains, located in the remote Central Highlands in the Pegunungan Maoke Central Range, are Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid, 4,884m) and Puncak Trikora (4,730m). Munday will travel by light aircraft and trek through extremely remote and challenging rainforest to each base camp.

The six-week expedition has three objectives: to be the first to summit the three highest peaks in Australasia in a single expedition; to verify the extent of the ice-cap cover on each of the three peaks for climate change scientists at the Universities of Glasgow, Indiana and Texas A&M and the World Glacier Monitoring Service – and to raise funds for Raleigh, the youth programme.

Ricky will live on freeze dried food and cope with the ever present dangers of malaria, dangerous snakes and altitude sickness. Temperatures will vary dramatically from extreme heat in the rainforest to sub-zero temperatures in the mountains.

Ricky Munday, who played rugby for Glasgow Hawks, harbours an ambition to climb the three highest peaks on each continent. His achievements to date include completing the Marathon des Sables and organising and leading a two-man expedition to Khan Tengri (6,995m) in Kyrgyzstan. In 2008, he organised and led the Africa 3 Peaks Expedition, which attempted to climb Mount Stanley (5099m), Mount Kenya (5199m) and Mount Kilimanjaro (5895m) in 20 days. The project raised over £6,000 for a children’s home in Nairobi where Munday had spent 4 months working on secondment.

Mark Anstice actually wrote a book about his successful ascent. It’s on Amazon UK here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Contact-Mark-Anstice/dp/1903070260
He also wrote a piece on the Guardian newspaper…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/23/indonesia.weekend7
and made a TV programme – “Cannibals and Crampons”

Some fascinating information on Mandala (+Puncak Jaya and Trikora) and a forthcoming trip by Ricky Munday here http://www.wideworldmag.com/features/indonesian-adventure