“We planned it just like any other mountain. It’s the highest, but we approached it like any other mountain,” recalled Mr Ng.
“It was not a sudden thing (to do). Every year we would go to climb, and we kept climbing higher and higher.”
What made things even more helpful was the support from OBS when the Ngs first raised the idea of taking a sabbatical some years ago.
The organisation helped link the duo with Dr Kumaran Rasappan, a Singapore orthopaedic surgeon who summited Everest in 2012, while some staff also shared various useful back-up resources.
Before leaving for Nepal, the couple put together their wills with the help of a lawyer friend.
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