UPDATES

(Picture: Lihui, Jane and Joanne on summit of Cho Oyu with Everest in background) The Singapore Women's Everest Team marked another successful expedition by summiting Cho Oyu (8,201m) on 23rd Sept. Fully acclimatized and using supplementary oxygen, the team set off for the summit at 1.30am on 23rd September from Camp [...]

(Picture: Joanne decked out in oxygen mask and snow goggles) Following 3 days of well-deserved rest at Nyalam, we're back at advanced base camp, well-fed and physically recuperated! We're now into the most exhilarating phase of our climb—the summit push! Looking at our weather forecast for the next week, stable and [...]

(Picture: Lihui jumaring the second ice cliff) We finally spent a night at Camp 2!!! Camp 2 (7000m, the height of a number of mountain summits) was extremely deserted with only 3 IMG tents, one Spanish tent (set up in the middle of our campsite) and 2 Mountain Madness tents (compared [...]

(Picture: Team at Camp 1) We completed our first acclimatization cycle 2 days ago by spending 2 nights up at Camp 1. We reached Camp 1 on 4 Sept at about 1.30pm and then spent the rest of the day resting, cooking and sorting out our gear for the next day's [...]

(Picture: Glad and relieved to have finally reached) Today was an extremely important day for us as we were due to set off on a round trip for Camp1 at 6400m. We had heard so much about how difficult climbing up the long and steep scree slope leading up to Camp [...]