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MIR 18, Imja Tse (Island Peak)
It has been a trend to see a retention rate of only 10-20% from each TMC team. Most of the other 80% may never don a pair of crampons again. Mountaineering is an expensive hobby and requires an element of luck to meet the… Read more…
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Women on Mountains Seminar 2019
Held: 13 February 2019, Wednesday Mountaineering has long been known to be a sport associated with men. There have long been, and there still are stereotypes that women and mountains are not synonymous – yet, through the course of history, there have been exceptional… Read more…
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Khumbu Education Fund
The Khumbu Education Fund (KEF) was started by a team of Singaporean mountaineers in 2005, the core of which were pioneers of the Make It Real (MIR) programme. The goal was to put the children of their guide, Mingma, and a few other Sherpa… Read more…
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MIR 18 Dafeng Peak, 5025m (December 2018)
Dafeng peak (5,025m) of Mount Siguniang has been described as a beginner 5000m peak and the easiest of the mountain’s four majestic peaks, despite the comforting reviews for the peaks 2D1N climb, this mountain was not one to be underestimated. As we left the… Read more…
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MIR 18 (Winter TMC)
“Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from tipping the ordinary plane of… Read more…
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MIR 17 Kazakhstan (2018)
Aside from a failed attempt at Taiwan’s Xueshan in 2015, I did not have any prior experience with mountains. I only had vague plans to go trekking for a post-graduation trip and that was when my friend Gerald, asked me if I wanted to… Read more…
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Games Climbers Play
Games Climbers PlayLito Tejada-FloresReality is the apparent absence of contradictionLouis Arragon, Le Paysan de Paris What I should like to propose in this article is not a new answer to the basically unanswerable question, ‘what is climbing?’, but rather a new way of talking… Read more…
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MIR 17 Team BTH
Epic From The Alps The story of team BTH began in 2017, where 3 alpine newbies consisting of Wu Jieyou, Zhao Weijie and myself dreamed, trained and planned for our first foray into the French alps (and alpine climbing in general). We had our… Read more…
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MIR 17’s Story
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…