Climbing Mt. Giluwe - 7th Volcano Summits

PNG’s second highest peak, Mount Giluwe, in the Southern Highlands Province holds a greater potential of tourism attraction. It is not openly known that Mt. Giluwe is the highest volcano summit on the Australian Continent and highest in the Pacific Oceania region – thus a sleeping giant for greater tourist attraction. At a height of 4,367m above sea level, is an ancient extinct shield volcano with two prominent 400m high cones forming its summits. 

The original volcano on the site of Mt. Giluwe formed roughly 650,000–800,000m years ago, probably as a strato-volcano of similar height to the current peak. Extensive glaciation eroded away much of the peak, leaving a series of volcanic plugs which form the present-day summits. (Source: Wikipedia).

Well, it is now scheduled on the 3^rd December 2013 to create the history to plant an inscription at peak summit of Mount Giluwe by Alexandra Marcu who is coming all the way from Romania in Europe. This is the 5^th in her record to climb the summit by a 16^_years old Alexandra who is from Romania and had climbed many volcano summits in Europe. She started climbing volcano summits when she was only 12 years old. She will be coming to PNG on the 30 November 2013 with the company of her father Dan Marcu. The trip to Mt. Giluwe will start from Romania to Port Moresby, then to Mt. Hagen and to Tambul and the Giluwe. To read more about Alexandra Marcu’s adventurous trips around the world, click HERE.