About Esther Tan

With the team, Esther went on to climb and summit mountains in far-flung corners of the world, including Mt Aylmer (2,699m) in New Zealand; Mera Peak (6,476m) in Nepal; Er Feng (5,276m) in China; Mustagh Ata (7,546m) in Central Asia, and Mt Everest (8,850m) in Nepal.

March 2008

the road is long…

2017-07-29T10:14:39+00:00March 26th, 2008|Blog, Esther|

it feels really different running up those slopes at north bouna vista road last night. i used to run that route every tuesday for 2 years with the team, [...]

run along, love

2017-07-29T10:14:39+00:00March 21st, 2008|Blog, Esther|

google earth isn’t the most friendly. i veered off my usual 10km running route and was trying to find out what distance i covered. took me about half an [...]

February 2008

January 2008

the need to put on weight

2017-07-29T10:14:39+00:00January 15th, 2008|Blog, Esther|

to put the headline in context, each member in the team loses about 4-8kg each time we come back from any mountaineering expedition (that’s about 5-7% of our body [...]

the passing of a hero

2017-07-29T10:14:39+00:00January 11th, 2008|Blog, Esther|

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became [...]

December 2007

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