KZN doctor determined to go all the way

DESPITE returning with Khumbu cough from a trek to Mount Everest's base camp, a KwaZulu-Natal doctor says the trip has made him more determined to accomplish his ultimate ambition — to summit the mountain.

- THAMI MAGUBANE

"That is something that is on my bucket list, to summit Mount Everest," said Dr Kanaya Maharaj, from Port Shepstone. He and 13 other hikers recently returned from their trip to base camp. The group known as Team North: South, are from KZN's North and South coasts and Johannesburg.

Some of the members of the group are aged 50 and above. Apart from Maharaj, the other members are Kaajal Sewcharan Sukeri, Rajendran Pillay, Praval Bodasing, Sunjay Bodasing, Danish Arunkumar Dullay, Anesh Rampurtab, Anandh Badrinath, Vasanti Kistasamy, Yagambaram Kistasamy, Isipingo Subramoney, Pranav Anandh Badrinath, Morganathan Moonsamy Naidoo, and Mahir Dev Maharaj.

Speaking shortly after their return home, Maharaj said he was still battling the effects of Khumbu cough.