Envoy ends stint on a high

Another feat accomplished: Salas (left) and his wife proudly hoisting the Argentinian flag after reaching the summit of Mount Kinabalu.

KOTA KINABALU: Since his stint in Malaysia in 2016, Argentina’s ambassador, Manuel Balaguer Salas, has had a list of accomplishments ranging from the arts to bilateral trade.

But with his tour of duty ending in about two months, there remained an “insurmountable mountain” that he had not overcome.