Envoy realises Mt Kinabalu dream


Mission accomplished: Menon (left), Jayanthi and Warran at Low’s Peak.

KOTA KINABALU: It has been eight years in the waiting, but it was all worth it for Singapore’s top diplomat to Malaysia, Vanu Gopala Menon, who finally made it to the summit of Mount Kinabalu.

The 62-year-old Singapore High Commissioner, his wife Jayanthi and First Secretary Warran Kalasagaran reached the 4,095m-high Low’s Peak on April 28.

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