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Initially didn't wanna start a thread for it since it's already viral + a few days late and we have it on our blog. But it's been given a second boost by Mothership. And till... MDM HO CHING shared it! Haha. Keeping it here for the record. 🤪 Ho Ching to PM Lee: 你要买GTR吗？ PM Lee: Errrrrrrrrrrrr. https://m.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=1002340&DL=1000

Huawei & China Mobile enable 5G network on Mount Everest Source: https://mothership.sg/2020/05/huawei-mount-everest/ Mount Everest might no longer be a remote spot. Whether you like it or not, mountaineers can remain connected with the rest of the world in the near future. 5G network made available on Mount Everest China Mobile and Huawei have mounted a 5G base station on Mount Everest recently at the altitude of 6,500 metres above sea-level. Two other base stations have also been built at the Mount Everest Base Camp at the altitude of 5,300 metres and in the Transition Camp at 5,800 metres. With these base stations, the two Chinese telecom giants will be able to run their dual Gigabit network on Mount Everest. Network specialists will also be stationed in the regions at an altitude of 5,300 metres 24/7 to ensure smooth network operations, according to Huawei. Huawei claims to be able to support a highly reliable and fast network with download speeds of more than 1.66 Gbps and upload speeds which top 215 Mbps. That means sending and receiving videos as well as live streaming on Mount Everest will soon be possible. Besides communication services, the 5G network will also enable a re-measurement of Mount Everest since the first measurement was made 45 years ago. For now, the summit of Mount Everest is recorded to be 8,848 metres above sea level. Here's a timelapse of the construction at one of the base station:

heard 10 died in 9 days, seem like climbing the Mount Everest is not difficult after all. At least seven other climbers have died on other 8,000-metre Himalayan peaks this season, while two are missing.

KATHMANDU - Twenty Nepali climbers are setting off to Mount Everest this week to try and remove decades-old garbage from the mountain in the world's highest ever clean-up campaign, organizers said on Monday. Many foreign and Nepali climbers have cleaned Mount Everest in the past but Namgyal Sherpa, leader of the Extreme Everest Expedition 2010, said no one had dared to clean above 8,000 meters , an area known as the "death zone" for the lack of oxygen and treacherous terrain. Sherpa and his team of seasoned climbers, carrying empty rucksacks and special bags, will risk the zone's thin air and freezing temperatures to pick empty oxygen bottles, gas canisters, torn tents, ropes, and utensils lying between the South Col and the 8,850 meter summit. "This is the first time we are cleaning at that height, the death zone. It is very difficult and dangerous," said Sherpa, who has climbed Everest, the world's tallest peak, seven times. "The garbage was buried under snow in the past. But now it has come out on the surface because of the melting of snow due to global warming," the 30-year-old said. "The rubbish is creating problems for climbers ... Some items of garbage are from Hillary's time." The mountain has become known as being the world's highest garbage dump. Many climbers leave their gear and trash behind as they descend due to exhaustion and lack of oxygen. New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa were the first to ascend to Mount Everest's summit in 1953. That feat opened Nepal as a popular tourist destination. More than 4,000 climbers have since scaled the mountain and tourism, including climbing, is a key source of income for Nepal, among the world's poorest countries. Sherpa's team hopes to bring down at least 2,000 kg of garbage and the corpse of a climber killed two years ago. "I have seen three corpses lying there for years," Sherpa said. "We'll bring down the body of a Swiss climber who died in the mountain in 2008 and cremate it below the base camp for which we have got the family's consent."

Currently on a trip to nepal. Some pictures to share. I am still in nepal right now so updates will come as I go along. In case you don't get it the picture of the plane wing is my first view of Mt everest from the flight into kathmandu.

Is that whose name we shall not say ???????????? https://sg.news.yahoo.com/she-riding-mt-everest-solo-042601898.html SINGAPORE — What to do when life puts obstacles in your path? If you’re Vaune Phan, you think of them as mountains to climb. That’s why the 27 year-old biker has decided to set off on an epic journey in June, starting from her comfortable home here and crossing 8,000km of mixed terrain, all the way to Everest Base Camp. “This trip signifies there can be “mountains” in our lives, but if we remain determined and persevere on, we will conquer the “mountain”, we can achieve our dreams,” she says. MORE: Another female rider who is braver than you

Who is sponsoring him now? How come he so lazy to get a job and earn his own keep? ST Apr 8, 2011 Adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow to climb Everest again By Neo Wen Tong ADVENTURER Khoo Swee Chiow is at it again. He will be attempting to climb Mount Everest for the third time, as part of a eight-mountain expedition in collaboration with AirAsia X, the Malaysian based long-haul, low fare affiliate of AirAsia. The expedition, Altitude X, will see Mr Khoo scaling eight of the highest peaks in AirAsia X's network - Mount Everest in China, Ben Nevis, Scotland, Mont Blanc, Western Europe, Mount Damavand in Iran, Mount Fuji in Japan, Hallasan in South Korea, Yushan in Taiwan, and Mount Cook in New Zealand. Other than the mountains in Scotland, South Korea and New Zealand, Mr Khoo is no stranger to the rest. He will be leaving Singapore on Friday for Chengdu, where he will then travel to Tibet and start the expedition by - once again - scaling the highest peak in the world. The expedition is planned to take until December to complete. Mr Khoo first scaled Mount Everest in 1998, and the second in 2006. He will be the first person in South-east Asia to scale it thrice. Said the 47-year-old: 'If possible, I'd love to climb Mount Everest again when I'm 50, 60 or even 70, if health permits.'

Honestly, I did not think they would make it. Did not think they would be as fit as us. Glad to be proven wrong. Hero's welcome at Changi airport sometime soon. Congrats all the same. ================================================================================ ============== Singapore's all-women team successfully summit Mt Everest Posted: 20 May 2009 0843 hrs SINGAPORE: The Singapore NATAS SWET Everest team have made it, reaching the summit of the world's tallest mountain, 8,850 metres above sea level. Lee Li Hui, 27, Esther Tan, 26, and Jane Lee, 25, stepped on the top of the world at 3.45am, 3.54am and 4.43am Wednesday Nepali time respectively, making the team the first Singaporean women to reach the world's tallest mountain. The second summit team are currently on the way from Camp 2 to Camp 3 and they plan to go for the summit on May 22. When told of the successful summit, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and patron of the team's expedition, said: "This is another historic achievement for Singapore. I am very proud of what our Singapore Women's Everest team has accomplished. "It takes courage, determination and excellent leadership and teamwork to scale the world's highest peak. They have once again demonstrated what our people can do against all odds when we set our minds to it. "This is the spirit of Singapore. I hope it will inspire many more Singaporeans to go forth and pursue their passions and achieve their goals." - CNA/ir

WELLINGTON (AFP) - - Edmund Hillary, who climbed to international fame as the first person to conquer Everest, the world's highest mountain, died Friday aged 88. The plain-speaking former New Zealand beekeeper became a household name after he and Nepalese guide Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, standing atop a peak that had defied mountaineers for decades. "Well, we knocked the bxxxxxd off," he said on the way back down. News of the British led expedition's historic achievement was announced in London the day young Elizabeth II was crowned queen, only adding to the patriotic fervour of Coronation Day. Hillary was always modest about his achievements and fame. "I have moderate abilities but I combine these with a good deal of determination and I rather like to succeed," he said. Hillary was born in Auckland on July 20, 1919, and as a youth showed no hint of the strength and skill that would make him one of the most famous mountaineers and explorers in the world. On seeing a scrawny Hillary in his first year of high school, his physical education teacher muttered in despair: "What will they send me next?" "I never got over this sense of physical inferiority," Hillary admitted in his autobiography. He was never meant to be the first to the top of Everest. Other team members got the first crack at the 8,848-metre (29,028-foot) summit but were thwarted several hundred feet short, hampered by fatigue and low on oxygen. After a night of little rest, Hillary and Tenzing made their second try, and the lanky New Zealander led the tricky trek up to the summit. To get around controversy, they said they had reached the top together. It was many years before Tenzing revealed that Hillary had actually got there first. "So there it is," Tenzing wrote in his book, "the answer to the great mystery." "The names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes," Jan Morris, the British historian and journalist who accompanied the expedition, wrote in Time magazine. "Hillary and Tenzing were two cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing," she said. Hillary was the only living New Zealander ever to appear on the country's currency, a national and worldwide hero who could have made a fortune from his historic ascent. Instead, he devoted much of his energy to his Himalayan Trust, which helped build schools, hospitals and clinics for the impoverished country of Nepal, which remained close to his heart. Alexa Johnston, who wrote Sir Edmund Hillary - An Extraordinary Life, said Hillary was complex but his defining characteristics were incredible persistence and generosity to others. "He's hard on himself and he can demand a lot from people but he is also not vindictive and he is able to forgive people if they don't measure up. "He's a driven man and he's been ambitious but he's also been incredibly ambitious for other people and particularly for the well-being of Sherpas and of course a commitment to human rights and social justice have been core to his approach to life as well." New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said his humility and modesty represented something very important to New Zealanders. Hillary remained a restless adventurer who re-affirmed his ambitious streak four years later in 1957, when he joined the trans-Antarctic expedition of British explorer Vivien Fuchs. As Fuchs set off from one side of the continent, a group led by Hillary set off on tractors from the opposite side to set up supply depots and map the terrain for the second half of Fuchs' crossing. Hillary instead stole his thunder by defying the Briton's wishes and heading to the South Pole, becoming the leader of the first expedition to reach the pole by vehicle. In 1960, he led another Himalayan adventure, this time in search of proof of the mythical yeti or abominable snowman -- a topic of great interest since Tenzing had said his father had twice seen one. Among the sherpa community, tales of the yeti were common but Hillary had no success. He got sick mid-way through the expedition -- possibly due to some uncertain fishcakes prepared by his friend Peter Mulgrew -- and pulled out. In 1975, Hillary's wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash near Kathmandu while flying to join him on a Himalayan Trust project. Four years later in 1979, Mulgrew also died when a sightseeing plane crashed in Antarctica. Mulgrew's wife June travelled with Hillary to New Delhi when he was appointed New Zealand's ambassador to India in 1984 and they married five years later. Hillary always had strong views about Everest, which has seen more than 2,000 people reach the summit after his historic success more than half a century ago. "Having people pay 65,000 dollars and then be led up the mountain by a couple of experienced guides, I personally think, is far less attractive," he told the BBC in 2003. "It isn't really mountaineering at all." http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080111/tts-...ry-c1b2fc3.html

dunno if gotta aircon or not??? A FAMILIAR sight in military camps and training grounds here, the Land Rover Defender will be making way for a new generation of sports-utility vehicles, the Ford Everest. The Ministry of Defence has placed an order for 870 Thai-made Fords as part of a programme to renew its ageing fleet of some 3,000 Land Rovers. The recently sealed deal with Sime Darby's Regent Motors - the Ford agent here - is said to be worth around $85 million, with an option for 500 more vehicles. The Straits Times understands that more than 50 Everests - painted in the army's camouflage green - have already been delivered. The purchase comes after plans to launch a novel scheme - to have civilians co-own and drive military SUVs during peacetime - was shelved. The Everest is Ford's made-in-Asia, made-for-Asia product, based on the Ranger pickup truck. It is assembled in Thailand, Malaysia, India, Vietnam and the Philippines. In civilian form, it is marketed as a seven-seater SUV. Regent Motor had wanted to add it to its passenger car range two years ago, but decided against it as it felt Singaporeans might want a more refined vehicle. But the robust SUV is expected to be a hit with the military. Mr Lee Nian Tjoe, editor of Torque, a motoring magazine published by Singapore Press Holdings, said: 'The Land Rover Defender may be cool, but from a practical point of view, the Ford Everest is better.' Mr Lee, an avid off-roader, said being an Asian car, the Everest is 'easier and cheaper to maintain'. The SUV is also more user-friendly for our soldiers. It has a three-litre diesel engine mated to a five-speed automatic transmission. It can be driven as a four-wheel or two-wheel drive - hence saving fuel when it is not required to negotiate rugged terrain. Most of the Land Rover Defenders here are 2.5-litre diesel manuals with permanent four-wheel drive. The purchase represents Mindef's first major move away from Land Rover. Mindef spokesman Colonel Darius Lim said: 'After an extensive evaluation, the Ford Everest was selected...to replace the ageing Land Rovers, some of which have been in service for more than 20 years.' Besides meeting 'operational requirements'. he said the Everests were 'more cost-effective than the Land Rovers'.