Khoo Swee Chiow Daring Mountaineer who has climbed Everest three times

Singaporean Club | Published July 12, 2015

Singaporean Khoo Swee Chiow becomes first South-east Asian to scale world's 3 highest peaks

The Malaysian-born Singaporean is one of the world's most prolific mountaineers, who has climbed Mount Everest in Nepal, the world's highest mountain, no less than three times.

He has also conquered K2 in Pakistan, the world's second-highest - and a far more dangerous climb than Everest. On K2, for every 10 people who reach the summit, two people perish in the attempt. This compares with a death rate of four in every 100 on Everest.

When not climbing the world's other tallest mountains, the 50-year-old has trekked to both the North Pole and the South Pole.

And for a bit of a change from cold weather, Mr Khoo holds the world record for the longest journey made on roller skates, travelling 4,176km (2,595 miles) from Vietnam to Singapore.

He has summited Everest thrice and climbed the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents - the Seven Summits dream that many mountaineers hope to achieve. Next in his sights were the 14 tallest peaks in the world that stand above 8,000m, called the eight-thousanders. Khoo has climbed the tallest three - Everest (8,848m), K2 (8,611m) and Kangchenjunga (8,586m) - and three more further down the list: Makalu (8,485m), Cho Oyu (8,188m) and Shishapangma (8,027m).

He climbed Shishapangma in Tibet becoming the first South East Asian to climb an 8,000-metre peak without supplemental oxygen.