Khoo Swee Chiow (simplified Chinese: 邱瑞昭; pinyin: Qiū Ruìzhāo; born 1964 in Port Dickson, Malaysia) is a Singaporean adventurer, author and motivational speaker.
Khoo climbed Mount Everest in 1998 as a member of Singapore's first Mount Everest expedition. In 1999, he skied to the South Pole as the leader of Singapore first Antarctica expedition, covering a distance of 1,125 km in 57 days. In 2001, he climbed Mount Ararat in Turkey together with s...
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Khoo Swee Chiow (simplified Chinese: 邱瑞昭; pinyin: Qiū Ruìzhāo; born 1964 in Port Dickson, Malaysia) is a Singaporean adventurer, author and motivational speaker.
Khoo climbed Mount Everest in 1998 as a member of Singapore's first Mount Everest expedition. In 1999, he skied to the South Pole as the leader of Singapore first Antarctica expedition, covering a distance of 1,125 km in 57 days. In 2001, he climbed Mount Ararat in Turkey together with six other Everest summitters from Turkey, Colombia, the United States and Mexico as part of a Peace Climb project to raise funds and promote international friendship. In that same year, he climbed Shishapangma in Tibet becoming the first South East Asian to climb an 8,000-metre peak without supplemental oxygen.
In 2002, he skied to the North Pole with Arctic guide Paul Landry and a dog named Apu, after failing the previous year due to frostbite on a finger. Khoo becomes the first South East Asian and the fourth person in the world to complete ...
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