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NATAS Singapore Women's Everest Team, Jane Lee - 28 May 9009
(National Association of Travel Agents Singapore)

The expedition went to the summit in two parties. The first one consisted of three members and three Sherpas: Li Hui Lee, Jane Lee, Tan, Ang Chhiring, Panuru, and Jamling Bhote. They left C4 on 19 May: Li Hui Lee, Tan, Panuru and Jamling at 8:20 pm, Jane Lee and Ang Chhiring at 8:30 pm. Li Hui Lee and Panuru were on the summit at 3:45 am on 20 May, Tan and Jamling at 3:54 am, and Jane Lee and Ang Chhiring at 4:43 am. Tan and Jamling returned to C4 at noon and spent the night there while the others descended to C2 between 4:30 pm and 6:15 pm.

The second summit party left C4 on 21 May: Peh Gee Lee and Danuru at 9:10 am, and Soo and Da Tenji at 9:15 pm. Soo and Da Tenji were on the top on 22 May at 5:31 am, Peh Gee Lee and Danuru at 5:54 am. Peh Gee Lee and Danuru arrived at C4 at noon and stayed there that night, the other two went down to C2 at about 5:00 pm.

Non-summiting members:

Lim was BC Manager, and did not go above BC.

Sim reached C2 developed chest pains, and stayed in BC for the rest of the climb.

Other health problems: Peh Gee Lee had an asthma attack in C4 on her return from the summit. She also had windburn on her face.

Oxygen was used by all members in and from C3 to the summit; Li Hui Lee, Jane Lee and Tan continued using it to C3, Soo to C2, and Peh Gee Lee, who spents her summit night in C4, kept using it in and from C4 until her return to BC on 23 May (see health problems above). The Sherpas used it from C4 to the top; some used it to C4 only, others to C3.

Sherpa summiters:
Ang Chhiring (name in passport & citizenship certificate), generally known
as Kami Chhiring, 1962 (2019), Pangboche, Everest X8, Cho Oyu X3
Da Tenji, aka Dawa Tenzing/Da Tenzing, 22/7/70 (7/4/2027), Phortse,
Everest X3, Cho Oyu X2
Da Nuru, aka Danuru/Dawa Nuru, 19/5/59, Phortse, Everest X6, Cho Oyu X4,
Makalu X1
Jamling Bhote, 28/12/77 (13/9/2034), Hatiya-1, Sankhu., Everest X3, Cho Oyu X2
Panuru, aka Pa Nuru/Pasang Nuru, 22/5/68 (9/2/2025), Phortse,
Everest X6 to end of 2008, + 5/5/09 fixing rope on Simonson's IMG
expeditions (after his 5/5/09 ascent he went down to BC, spent a few
days at his home in the village not far away, and returned to the mountain
to join the Singaporean ladies), Cho Oyu X3