After successfully climbing up Mount Everest, Lee targeted the rest of the Seven Summits and promptly quit her former job as a Senior Executive at Singapore's Republic Polytechnic's Adventure Learning Centre to become a professional full-time mountaineer, securing sponsorships for her climbs from organisations such as MindChamps, an esteemed tuition centre in Singapore, Bank Julius Baer, a Swiss bank, and Khunu, a Himalayan company selling wool derived from mountain yaks in the Himalayas, at the same time. In February 2010, Jane Lee successfully reached the peak of Australia's Mount Kosciuszko. Five months later, she climbed up Alaskan mountain McKinley. A year later, Lee ascended four mountains: Antarctica's Mount Vinson in January; Mount Aconcagua in Argentina a month later; the famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa, in June; and the Russian Mount Elbrus in July. During her climbing of the Seven Summits, Lee was plagued by problems such as drastic snow storms, a hard landing on a runway of solid ice on Mount Vinson, experiencing five different weather conditions in Tanzania and having to elude police from Russia on Mount Elbrus, which had been sealed off due to high activity by terror groups.
Awards
The NationalUniversity of Singapore presented to Lee the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2009, in recognition of her achievements. In 2014, Lee and the other members of the Singapore Women's Everest Team were inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame.
Personal life
Born to Lee Hua Lam, a businessman, and Susan Sng, a sales and operations manager, in 1984, Lee is the second of three children in her household. In an interview with Singapore newspaper my paper, Lee commented on her father, saying, "My dad is a very 'outdoorsy' and adventurous person. Because of his influence, I never went to shopping malls or cinemas." As a fan of reading, Lee enjoys indulging in the works of American authorAyn Rand, one of her favourite writers. Though strict in her personal fitness regime, Lee has admitted in an interview to "eating everything from char kway teow to McDonald'sfrench fries and Hainanese chicken rice". In addition to conducting motivational speeches for business organisations, schools and public groups, Lee blogs on her personal website, janeclimbs.com, and for Straits Times Online Mobile Print, a Singapore webpage meant for citizen journalism.
