Sister scales Tres Cruces to pay tribute to Malli Masthan Babu
Dr Dorasanamma took the risk of climbing 5,900 metre of the 6,500 metre difficult range.
Nellore: In January, Dr Malli Dorasanamma, sister of late mountaineer Malli Masthan Babu, scaled the Tres Cruces Sur in the Ande Mountains in Argentina where Babu had breathed his last. Babu had died exactly one year back, on March 23, 2015 in the Andes after getting caught in bad weather post a successful ascent of the Tres Cruces Sur summit.
The urge to see and offer prayers at the place where Babu died and also to bring back the National Flag he left behind on the mountains, Dr Dorasanamma took the risk of climbing 5,900 metre of the 6,500 metre difficult range.
“My brother used to say that summiting was important and coming back alive was also very important. The mountaineering friends of Masthan Babu could not trace the National Flag while bringing back the bo-dy. I lost my brother and the National Flag too. It gave me motivation to go there and bring back the flag,” Dr Dorasanamma told DC.
Incidentally, a German team climbing the mountain had found the Indian flag and had handed it over to a museum at Fiambila in Argentina headed by Ms Lissable, a friend of Babu. She in turn gave it to Dr Dorasanamma during her visit in January.
Dr Dorasanamma said, “I was exited when I received the flag. I carried it along with another national flag that I took from here apart from a flag of the Sainik School to the spot where Malli breathed his last. I offered tributes for his adventures and the name he brought to the nation”.
Dr Dorasanamma, accompanied by mountaineers Mr Marcello Soria, Ms Marina and Mr Frank of Argentina, scaled the mountain on January 25 after two weeks of trekking. She said that they also faced bad weather but it lasted for only 30 minutes.
A neurologist practising in Tirupati, Dr Dorasanamma is keen on completing the leftover work of Babu regarding a book on the Seven Summits apart from establishing a library where all mountaineering material will be available in one place. She also has plans of a museum housing the collections of her brother.
She has been making elaborate arrangements for the first death anniversary of Masthan Babu at Gandhijana Sangam in Sangam mandal of SPSR Nellore district on Wednesday.