it's not abt the gender or abt whether women can do it.....it's
abt spending that $1 million 
...especially when everybody is struggling ......
Singaporean definitely got no qualm dishing out million
bucks to help the unfortunates as proven in our donations last
years but definitely not to satisfy some egos and proving that one
gender can do better than the others. GET IT??
why dun embark on some down-to earth feats like cleaning
out one thousand old folk homes or those redhill homes for the
the aged loners or wat?
Singapore's first women's Everest team raises funds for
climb
By Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia |
Posted: 12 July 2008 2354 hrs
SINGAPORE : Singapore's first all women's Everest team has
so far raised only 20 per cent of their S$1 million budget to scale
the world's highest peak.
The six-women team was to have climbed Mount Everest in March this
year, but a shortage of funds delayed their trip.
As part of their fundraising efforts, the team is now conducting
team-building workshops for women and youths. Their latest workshop
was for the cabin crew of SilkAir, which is sponsoring the Everest
team's plane tickets.
The group is now planning to attempt the climb in March next year,
but fundraising continues to be an uphill task.
Jane Lee, team leader of the Singapore Women's Everest Team, said:
"Few people believe that a group of women can stick together for so
long to climb a mountain, and I think fewer people believe that a
group of women are capable of climbing a mountain together.
"But I feel that our string of successful expeditions have proven
that as a team, we are performing and we are capable. And as the
first women Everest team, we will make it next year when we go up
Mount Everest."
More information on the team's efforts is available at this
website. - CNA
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I would like them to give the public the transplarent breakdown of
their budget. How is it possible to cost that much to climb Mount
Everest even with sponsors?!!!
Unless they need to pay tolls to those Yeti guards guarding the
individual Mountain section, if no money to pay they will get raped
by those Yeti guards is it?
Anyway, any exceptional feats performed under exceptional
comfort is no unexceptional feat at all.