Singapore
team makes it to South Pole
Agence France Presse in Kuala Lumpur. December
31, 1999
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FOUR trekkers from Singapore
reached the South Pole Dec 31 in the nick of time to catch the millennium
sun and becoame the first from the island state to set foot on the southern-most
point of earth.
Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong congratulated the trekkers by telephone, hoping the success would inspire other Singaporeans to dare and achieve.
"Of course, not everyone has to climb Mount Everest or trek the Antarctica, but Singaporeans must have the guts, the spirit and the capability to face their own challenges in life," Goh said in a statement.
Goh is the patron of the so-called Antarctica 2000 project, under which the trekkers should scale before New Year the highest peak in the icy continent, Mount Vinson Massif.
The trekkers are unlikely to achieve the feat due to bad weather, reports said.