From the Northwest Express

Local Lascelles farmer Ross Schack is organising a group of interested people to scale the summit of Mt Kosciusko, the highest mountain in Australia in February 2009.

Ross said he was inspired to reach the summit of Mt Koscziuszko after reading his distant cousin Sir Edmund Hillary ’s book about his challenges in conquering Mt Everest.

One imagines his thought process upon reading the book ran something like, "Wow...I wish I could do something much less impressive than that."

And by golly, he WILL!