kolhapur four members of a trekking group from kolhapur recently scaled mount kalapattar from where one gets a glimpse of mount everest ten people including a 14yearold girl recently went on a trekking expedition to the mount everest base camp after spending a night at the camp four members of the team including a woman went ahead to climb the 5553 metre peak the group trekked for fourteen days to and fro from lukla to the everest base camp it was difficult to climb to mount kalapattar but i was determined half way through the climb i was finding it difficult due to the high pressure and low oxygen levels everyone advised me to return but i waited for a while and scaled the peak it was really a challenging moment of my life i still shiver when i recall the climb said anjali jadhav the team all amateur trekkers had trained for two months for the climb apart from regular exercises they also went on four treks in the sahyadri ranges to build the body for the trek kavya mane a class ix student dreams of climbing mount everest some day she joined the trekking group along with her father trekking is my hobby and since childhood i had dreamt of climbing mount everest the trek to the base camp was my first step towards accomplishing my dream she said the team included suraj and anjali jadhav chaitanya and ankita bhurke umesh mane and his daughter kavya maitri shah ravi patil pravin patil and sarang joshi all the teammate reached kathmandu on november 5 they travelled to lukla on november 7 and started trek to reach to phakding 2640 m to stay overnight there they walked for five hours for first day their next destination was namche bazaar 3440 m which is part of sagarmatha everest national park the trail to namche is steep and long but finally we all managed to reach there by evening said chaitanya bhurke who had come along with his wife ankita for trek the team stayed at namch for overnight and moved towards their next destination tengboche 3867 as we were moving to high altitudes we had to cope up with the low oxygen in the atmosphere and low temperature which was below zero degree centigrade said umesh mane mane was a member of team along with his 14 year old daughter kavya their next destinations were pheriche 4280 m lobuche 4990m and gorakh shep 5180 m from gorakh shep which is considered as everest base camp mountaineers camp here for months before climbing mt everest vinod kamboj owner of the city based organisation that organises adventures camps who organised this trek said this was the first time that ten people and that too three women and one girl from kolhapur are part of the trekking team to everest base camp every year we organise the trek but the response from city was good this year women rarely participate in these types of