Building vital skills


Participants rowing for their lives during the challenge. — The Straits Times/Asia News Network

BEYOND teaching survival skills, outdoor learning can help enrich the lives of Singaporeans by building vital social and emotional skills, said Peter Hillary, 62, son of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mount Everest.

“Outdoor learning is social and experiential and has the power to affect your heart and your emotions, which is a very powerful thing,” said the outdoor adventure operator from New Zealand.

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