Cork’s high achievers
MOTHER’S home cooking never tasted so good for the 12 Cork schoolboys who climbed Mt Kilimanjaro with 133 other climbers, the largest ever group to reach the 5,895m summit.
Conquering Africa’s highest peak is macho, so these 16- and 17-year-olds almost swaggered off the plane last week. While most transition year students were maxing out on computer games before their summer ended, these pupils of CBC Cork were gasping for air at high altitude.
