Story by Dawn Yip
Linda Tan, who is attempting to be Singapore's first woman on Everest, has not been heard from since yesterday. She last called Singapore from Camp 4, just before setting off for her summit push. She was to have arrived at the summit today around noon Singapore time, but no one has heard from her yet.
All we are able to gather is from an update issued today by Summit Climb, the organiser of Linda's expedition:
Hello Summitclimb news. This is Arnold again calling from camp 2.
I have some good news. This morning at 8:00 a.m. local time, Dan, Alan, and Adam Mallory summited Everest. I just spoke with them on the radio. They are doing fine and they will soon start their descent. Unfortunately Laura Mallory left camp 4 last night, but didn't feel too good so she turned around. She wants to try again this evening without a sherpa. Also, Linda turned around last night and she's back safely in camp 4. [Source: SummitClimb website]
Tay Chee Meng, who spoke with Linda yesterday, said that although there may be oxygen left over from those who had successfully summited, it is unlikely Linda will be able to make another attempt. "At that kind of altitude, your digestive system stops working. You'll be exhausting yourself. I hope she will come down and rest. I think she’s pushed herself quite hard," says Chee Meng. Linda's climbing visa also expires on 31 May.
Agreeing, fellow mountaineer and friend Sim Phei Sunn said, "It's not the kind of altitude where you can rest and recover. It must have been a hard decision to turn back and she's probably quite disappointed. But I'm quite sure she tried her best, knowing her and what she is like."
Red Sports will bring you confirmation of Linda's status as soon as we are able.
Click here to read previous Red Sports stories about Linda Tan’s Everest journey.
Dear Da Mei
Grandma and family are behind you. You have done well. We are proud of you. Looking forward to see you soon.
Love, ck
hey Linda,
You’ve been a brave girl!
You go Girl!!!!!
Woo Hoo!!!!
Whatever happens, you are already a Champion!
Sentosa Beach Patrol is proud of you.
Namely:
Shiqin & Gaz
Hope to see you soon..for vegetarian dinner!
love…
Dear Linda
Come back safe. You have done the most important thing, that is you have done your best 🙂
Weili
On behalf of fellow Singaporeans: “Thank you for the endeavour!”
Making it to Camp 4 alone is a huge success and, I’d venture to say, the bravest of undertakings by a local lass. It is an extraordinary effort that leaves me in awe of you.
It just remains for me to wish you all the best for the future!
Linda has called from camp 2 . She is fine and may descend to base camp.
In Life, what sometimes appears to be the end, is really a NEW beginning.
LIFE’S GREAT JOURNEY CONTINUES………
“To the generous mind the heaviest debth is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it”. -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
On behalf LInda and Great Eastern, we like to this opportutity to thanks ALL who have make Linda Life’s great journey possible. Dawn, thanks
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For a free copy of book ” Life’s Great Journey”. “Life’s 100 Great Quotes” which Linda unable to launch at Mount Everest, email us at chuan@Lifeisgreatjourney.com.
For Everest, you will always be 8848m tall, but Linda shall return stronger, wiser from the lessons learned .
Little yve, yenn, ynn, janet and chuan
I learnt this today : Life Is Like Drawing Without An Eraser. This part of your life which you have drawn and pictured shall remain as fond memories. May you emerge triumphant in your quest !
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Linda, can’t wait for your to return to tell the story and show the pictures 🙂
Cheers,
LH
” You don’t developed courage by being happy in your relationships everday. You develped it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity”.-Epicurus (341-270BC) Greek Philosopher.
Linda, many a time have you heard that the rewards are great if one summit but rewards are great only because so few succeed. Many succumbed to despair and failed without realising that they have already in possession of all tools needed to summit. Many others face each obstacle in the in the path with fear and doubt. More often than not they consider them as enemies when , in truth, these obstructions are friends and helpers. Challenges are necessary for life’s journey, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arm forcing you to become better…. or worse: resulting in you quitting. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward, turn away from them, avoidance or you will throw away your future.
chuan
From all of us here at Advisors’ Clique….you are GREAT for achieving what you have achieved thus far…a feat none of us here are able to do…but one that ALL of us are proud of…we pray for your safe return…
Dear Linda
It’s important to reach your goal but it is even more important to ensure your personal safety is first priority.
We pray for your safe return.
Choe Kee Hong
Dear Linda
Whatever the outcome, you have already achieved what lot of guys back home dont even dare to think about it. Mt Everest is always there, but there is only 1 Linda whom we know and grow to respect each day when we follow your quest in Everest.
There will always be another chance to revisit Everest ( I am sure lots of respectable, professional and amatured alike climber will attest to that) and ITS waiting for you.
We are waiting for your safe return and eagerly sharing with us the ups and downs of this expedition. Remember, you do not need to proof anything to anybody, cause this is a romance between you and Everest and everyone who cares about you are just the stars in the sky when you look up wishing you the very best and be happy.
James PU YEA
Team Miura Summits Everest !!
(May 26, 2008 – 7:33 Nepal Time;10:48 Japan Time)
Yuichiro Miura (75), an internationally renowned professional skier and adventurer, and his Miura Qomolangma 2008 expedition team reached the summit of the world’s highest peak Mt. Everest (Chinese name-Mt. Qomolangma;
8848m) from the Nepalese South East Ridge Route today at 7:33 am Nepal Time.
Linda: The only time you fail is the last time you try. “You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose”. Abraham Lincoln
August 9 1965: “It is a moment of anguish” for “Our founder father” Lee Kuan Yew when he announces Singapore’s independence from Malaysia. “All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in the merger and unity of the two territories,” he revealed, but it was not to be, and he went on to tranform Singapore from a third world country to be a “developed world”.
Little yve,yenn,ynn, janet and chuan
Linda ,you are the only one who know yourself best. The power of our mind is without limit.
NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander has started sending photos from the planet’s surface on the first day of its three-month mission “to taste and sniff the northern polar site’s soil and ice,” the space agency said Monday. Scientists described the feat of landing the probe safely as like scoring a hole-in-one with a golf ball from 10,000 miles.
“What this power is , I cannot say. All I know is that it exists, and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want, and fully determined not to quit until you get it”. -Alexander Graham Bell
Little yve,yenn,ynn, janet and chuan
am hoping everything will end well for you. you are indeed an inspiration, and a role model.