Our Stories

The goal this Academic Year (17/18) was to establish better connections with our seniors and to improve the cohesiveness of each TMC team. We carried on the torch from MIR 16, kept the current format of TMC going and did our best to make… Read more…

The most standard advice on how to get to know people when starting university is to get involved in a student club. I went to the fair at NUS and wanted to try a new sport. Though several clubs where open for beginners, I… Read more…

The top of Naya Kanga (5863m) was a miserable place — our summit push was a race against a brewing storm, which by the time we reached the summit, was all ready to spill over. That meant that we did not have much time… Read more…

Being away from civilization, the hustle and bustle of city life has a weird effect on us city dwellers. This can manifest itself into different forms. Some might discover their incessant desire to check their phones (but let’s face it, there’s nothing there), some… Read more…

Straits Times Article on NUS Mountaineering Straits Times Article on OTC Peak Somewhere along the Tien Shan range, on a glacier that divided Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, a man named David Lim decided to name a peak, after Singapore’s late president, Mr Ong Teng Cheong,… Read more…

During the summer of 2017 a group of 10 of us embarked on a trip to Langtang Valley, Nepal, to attend a basic technical mountaineering course. For many of us, this would be our first foray into the mountains. In the months that led… Read more…

I remember reaching Nepal and our guide Naren laughing at us for commenting that the temperature in Kathmandu was ‘cold’. We were told to man up, that there was more to face. This was an all guys team, and a rare one in a… Read more…