“Notable climbs I particularly enjoyed were Matterhorn in Switzerland, Mt Khuiten in Mongolia, and Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania,” he enthused, adding that his sons have all started their climbing journey with indoor rock wall climbing in Singapore, as evidenced by small rock-climbing shoes hung neatly in the equipment room.
It was on one of these climbing trips – an attempt to scale Mount Fuji in winter, later aborted due to bad weather – that the husband reconnected with Yeo, his secondary school classmate. “It was in 2015. We had bumped into each other at Narita International Airport, as I was coming to Tokyo,” said Yeo, recalling the serendipitous meeting that led to their collaboration on the house years later.
