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Changi Boulder (Whitestone)
We started looking for things to climb after Joel showed us a photo of walls behind Gali Batu. A few weeks after we went to check it out, Nathaniel saw a photo online which featured a sizeable rock outcrop rising out of the waters… Read more…
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Night Escapades to Dairy Farm
“The most beautiful mountain in the world is not the highest, or the most difficult. It is personal. It is always the one I am currently dreaming of.“ Reinhold Messner In the past few months, Dairy Farm (DF) has been a personal ‘mountain’ of… Read more…
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Of Mountains and Dreams
“Being hopeful means no matter the outcome, something good will come out of it.“ Mountaineering Leadership Programme (MIR 20) When Covid-19 struck, every aspiring Singaporean mountaineer’s worst fears were realised – access to the mountains were denied, with no definite end date in sight.… Read more…
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The Deep End in Aotearoa
Six months ago, after a weekend handover, four of us officially inherited MIR from Nicholas and the batch before. There we were, sat at the U-Town rock wall on a Sunday evening, wondering about many things – prospects, ambitions, challenges. But above all, one… Read more…
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Sichuan 双桥沟 Ice Climbing 2019
Lynn Hill is one of America’s most famous climbers. Her illustrious climbing career started in a small climbing area called ‘Big Rock’ in Southern California. From there, she ventured across America, spent time honing her free climbing in Yosemite, rose to become a world… Read more…
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Escape The Ordinary
What does it mean to ‘Escape The Ordinary’? Over this past semester, we asked ourselves and those around us this question. For some, it meant going on an adventure. And for others, perhaps overcoming a challenge. But often times, in our rather insular lives,… Read more…
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MIR 18 Kazakhstan (2019)
Why do we climb? Edwin Siew answered, it’s because mountaineering reflects life’s uncertainties and difficulties. In a nutshell, that’s how this Kazakhstan trip was like – full of disappointments, discomfort and pain. But nonetheless, a mountaineer craves to go back to the mountains to… Read more…
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Climbing in Long Dong
In Alpine Climbing, John Barry writes about the defining characteristics that makes a good alpinist. Obvious traits like being fit, hardy, good judgement, improvisation skills are a given, but above all, he notes that they have to be good all-round climbers, on rock or… Read more…
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MIR 18 Summer (2019)
Mountaineering is, like most extreme sports, counter-intuitive. Against ingrained notions of self-preservation, you pack your gear, leave the comfort of warmth and oxygen-filled lungs to go pit yourself against nature. At the start of the semester, twelve unknowing undergraduates decided to do just that.… Read more…