The Tian Shan mountain range in central Asia extends through western China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It is 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi) long, and up to 7,400 metres (24,300 ft) high.
In July 2005, David Lim’s MacCoffee expedition visited the Tian Shan region and claimed 3 virgin peaks, named Temasek, Singapura, and Ong Teng Cheong.
11 years later, in August 2016, the expedition team, supported by the ONG Foundation successfully summitted the Ong Teng Cheong Peak,recorded its accurate GPS coordinates and documented the expedition routes. These details were submitted to the Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Federation of Kazakhstan to benefit future mountaineering efforts in the region.
During the same expedition, the team also climbed a virgin peak across from the Ong Teng Cheong peak with the intention of having it recognised as the Ong Siew May Peak.
You're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.
ONG TZE BOON
Despite a busy work schedule, Boon lives by the mantra of keeping fit and living healthy. He runs everyday, and has completed in excess of 7000km since August 2012. Boon also enjoys other adrenaline sports including alpineering, snowboarding, surfing and water skiing. He has recently completed the the World Marathon Challenge 2016 in January 2016.
Good food and good company can turn any mountaineering ordeal into Type II fun.
LIM KIM BOON
Kim Boon is a qualified Mountain Leader and Single Pitch Award holder, Ice Climbing Instructor in China, and an active member of the Mountaineering Instructor Association in the UK. As a pioneer rock climbing instructor and assessor in Singapore, he has trained many of today's top Singapore rock climbers, including the first Make-It-Real (MIR) student mountaineering project in 2002, as well as the NUS Everest Team for their Mera peak expeditions in 2003, during which he scaled Mera Peak 4 times in one season!
I see running as an island of peacefulness, a chance to recharge and maintain my sanity...
LEOW KAH SHIN
Leow Kah Shin is an accomplished ultramarathon runner. He treats it as a means of transport, a holiday and a challenging hobby, sometimes even carrying a backpack filled with water and 10kg rice sacks on his runs, and doing yoga twice weekly to keep his muscles supple. The stamina he has built up as a result of his lifestyle and training has allowed him to successfully complete six ultra-marathons, four 250km desert runs across the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Gobi Desert in China, the Sahara in Egypt and The Last Desert in Antarctica, as well as the North Face Ultra Trail Marathon du Mont Blanc.
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