| Achievement |
Year |
Description |
Remarks |
| First Singaporean to summit Denali |
1982 |
TS Wong is the first Singaporean to summit Denali, the highest peak in North America. |
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| First Singapore Everest team to summit Mt Everest |
1998 |
Khoo Swee Chiow and Edwin Siew under the Singapore Everest team led by David Lim reached the summit of Mt Everest via the South Col on 25 May 1998. |
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| Singapore Antartica Expedition 2000 |
1999 & 2000 |
Khoo Swee Chiow, Robert Goh, David Lim and Ang Yau Choon reached the South Pole on 31 December 1999. Dr Mok Ying Jang, Lee Ling Yen, Kuak Nam Jin reached the summit of Mt Vinson, the highest point in Antartica, on the 09 Jan 2000. |
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| Aconcagua alpine style via Polish Traverse |
2000 |
David Lim and Tok Beng Cheong reached the summit of Aconcagua on 19 Feb 2000. Going by alpine style, they received no support except for a mule who helped carried food and equipment to the base camp of the mountain. |
Official Website |
| 7 Summits |
2000 |
Khoo Swee Chiow becomes the first South East Asian to complete the 7 Summits (highest point of each continent) on 22 November 2000.
| Kilimanjaro, Africa |
20 June 1994 |
| Everest, Asia |
25 May 1998 |
| Aconcagua, South America |
29 Feb 2000 |
| Denali, North America |
01 July 2000 |
| Elbrus, Europe |
19 September 2000 |
| Carstenz Pyramid, Oceania |
19 October 2000 |
| Kosciuszko, Oceania |
28 October 2000 |
| Vinson Massif, Antartica |
22 November 2000 |
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| Xixabangma without supplementary oxygen |
2001 |
Khoo Swee Chiow becomes the 1st South East Asian to reach the summit of an 8000 m peak without supplementary oxygen on 28 Sep 2001. |
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| North Pole Expedition |
2002 |
Khoo Swee Chiow reached the North Pole on 5 May 2002 after skiing 771 km on Day 45 if the Hitachi Extreme North Expedition. |
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| Adventure Grand Slam (7 Summits, the South Pole and the North Pole) |
2002 |
Khoo Swee Chiow becomes the first man in Singapore and South East Asia to complete the Adventure Grand Slam on 05 May 2002. He was the fourth person in the World to complete the Adventure Grand Slam. |
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| Singapore Xixabangma Expedition alpine style without supplementary oxygen |
2002 |
Dr Robert Goh and Edwin Siew are the first in Southeast Asia to summit an 8,000m mountain in alpine style on 16 May 2002. |
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| Summitting Cho Oyu without oxygen |
2004 |
Dr Robert Goh and Lim Kim Boon summitted Cho Oyu without oxygen. They are the first Singaporeans and in South East Asia to summit Cho Oyu without supplementary oxygen. |
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| Solo expedition to Ojos del Salado (6882m), World's highest volacano. |
2005 |
On 21 Jan 2005, David Lim reached the summit of Ojos (Chile). |
Official Website |
| NUS team and the first Singaporean summit Mt Everest |
2005 |
On the 31 May 2005, Lindley Morris Zerbe summitted Everest. Teo Yen Kai becomes the first Singaporean to reach the summit of Mt Everest on 02 June 2005 (Edwin Siew and Khoo Swee Chiow, who summitted Everest in 1998 were Malaysians and Singapore permanent residents). Chow E-fung also reached the summit on the same day. |
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| Singapura I Peak (4589m) Temasek Peak (4374m) Ong Teng Cheong Peak (4743m) |
2005 |
In July 2005, an expedition was led by David Lim to summit virgin peaks in Tien Shan. The first person to summit the peak have the privilage of naming it. On 24 July 2005, David Lim, Mohd Rozani, Wilfred Tok and Dr Shani Tan summitted the first peak (later named Temasek peak). David Lim, Mohd Rozani and Wilfred Tok summitted the second peak (later named Singapura I Peak) on 26 July 2005. On 29 July 2005, the last peak, (later named Ong Teng Cheong peak) was summitted by the 4 climbers. |
Official Website |
| Damavand (5671m), Asia's Highest Volacano (Singapore-Iran Expedition 2006) |
2006 |
David Lim reached the summit of Damavand on 22 June 2006 after a 7 hours climb. |
Official Website |
| First Singaporean women to summit Mt Everest |
2009 |
Lee Li Hui, Esther Tan and Jane Lee becomes the first Singaporean Women to reached the summit of Mt Everest. Joanne Soo and Lee Peh Gee from the same NATAS-SWET team also summitted on the 22 May 2009. |
Official Website |
| First Singaporean Women to Ski to the South Pole |
2009 |
Sophia Pang, age 37, member of Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition 2009 |
Official Website |
| Resilience Peak (4457m; N42.317051 E79.934720) Majulah Peak (5152m) Kongsberg Peak |
2009 |
Expedition team led by David Lim (Team members: Mohd Rozani, Grant Rawlinson) to summit peaks in Tien Shan. All three peaks were summitted in August 2009. Kongsberg Peak is named after the primier expedition sponsor of the expedition, Kongsberg Maritime. |
Official Website |
| First Singapore team to reach the summit of Ama Dablam (6812 m) |
2011 |
Singapore team led by Joanne Soo reaches the summit of Ama Dablam on 12 Nov 2011. The summit team includes Joanne Soo, Clarence Yap, Joyce Lim and Kumaran Rasappan. |
climbeverest2012 website
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| 7 Summits (First Singapore women) |
2011 |
Jane Lee becomes the first South East Asian women to complete the 7 Summits (highest point of each continent) on 2011.
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| K2 |
2012 |
Khoo Swee Chiow becomes the first man in South-East Asia to reach the summit of K2 on 31 July 2012.
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| Khan Tengri (North side) |
2012 |
Kong Xieheng is the first Singaporean to summit Khan Tengri (North Side)
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| Lenin Peak |
2013 |
Nicholas Chee is the first Singaporean to summit Lenin Peak
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| Mt SUTD |
2014 |
A team of students from SUTD reached the summit of a 6,056m virgin peak at Karcha Nala, a valley in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. The name of the peak will be called Mount SUTD. Team members are Samuel Chin, Raymond Te, Andrew Toh, Javier Su and Daniel Wee. Guided by Edwin Siew.
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The Straits Times |
| Sudarshan Parbat, India |
2016 |
First Singaporean alpine style summit of Sudarshan Parbat India, Kong Xieheng, Nicholas Chee, Arnette Wong, Ng Yixiang
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| Dhaulagiri |
2017 |
Dhiren Doshi is the first Singaporean to summit Dhaulagiri
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| Manaslu |
2018 |
Anandan Bala is the first Singaporean to summit Manaslu
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