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Teamwork, the Everest way
From: INSEAD Business School Blog The first Singaporean women to reach the summit of Everest used a framework that defines effective teams. There were no Olympic medals up for grabs when Sim Yi Hui and Jane Lee, the co-founders of the Singapore Women’s Everest team set out to recruit team [...]
Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame: Singapore Women’s Everest Team
From: Singapore Women's Hall of Fame BORN: 2009 INDUCTED: 2014 CATEGORY: ADVENTURERS & EXPLORERS JANE LEE, SIM YIHUI, JOANNE SOO, LEE PEH GEE, LEE LI HUI, ESTHER TAN It was five years in the making. In May 2009, after more than 1,700 days of rigorous training and practice climbs, the [...]
TEDxSingapore – Esther Tan – All Women’s Everest Team
Esther is part of the NATAS Singapore Women's Everest Team. After an arduous 5-year journey of planning, training and fund-raising; she and her teammates created history for the nation by being the first Singaporean women to summit the highest mountain in the world on 20 May 2009. TEDxSingapore is an [...]
Her World Young Woman Achiever 2009: Singapore Women’s Everest Team
From: Her World MEET THE NATAS SINGAPORE WOMEN’S EVEREST TEAM Joanne Soo, 39, runs Ace Adventure, an adventure company; Lee Li Hui, 28, is a financial consultant; Sim Yi Hui (co-team leader), 27, is an experimental education officer; Jane Lee (team leader), 26, runs Wild Atlas Expeditions, a niche adventure company; Esther Tan, 28, [...]
Heroes Behind The Mountain
Yes, we climbed Mt Everest and we summitted the mountain. But beyond the support of sponsors, individual donors, family and friends, there is a group of people whom we are grateful for - our sherpa guides. From the acclimatization climbs to the actual summit push, our sherpas have been with [...]