Live image of Romeo "Romi" Garduce and the GMA7 team some days ago in BC, courtesy of GMA 7 Team / GMA News (click to enlarge).
Filipino Romi might not have been the first Filipino summiteer - but he sure was the first to shoot over his summit picture - straight from the death zone! Image over Contact 4.0 courtesy of GMA.
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(MountEverest.net) Romi is now in Camp 4 - he will stay there overnight and if the weather holds will try to go straight to Base Camp tomorrow, reported Michael Josh Villanueva, journalist with sponsoring TV Network GMA News. Garduce is a Contact 3.0 user, which permitted him to send live pictures from C4.He was interviewed live from C4 for 24 Oras (our primetime news program), where he told us that the wind was very strong on the way to the summit. He also got the chance to exchange hellos and congratulations with his mom....
