Every Woman Has Her Everest

Climbing through loss and discovering the strength within. At the age of 57, Margaret Chew challenged herself to climb mount Everest. Her reasons - the love of mountaineering and a journey of overcoming grief.

At the age of 57, Margaret Chew challenged herself to climb mount Everest. Her reasons - the love of mountaineering and a journey of overcoming grief.

Just 3 months before her climb, her youngest son Joseph was a victim of a freak explosion in HELP University.

Margaret talks about how she started hiking 8 years ago to tackling the highest mountain in the world and proving that Every Woman has Her Everest and what she has learned to overcome it.

Every Woman Has Her Everest

Climbing through lost and discovering the strength within 19th July, Sunday 3:00pm - 5:00pm

RM50 per person (refreshments included)

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About Margaret Chew

When Margaret first started planning for Everest in August 2025, the idea was to encourage women to overcome their own Everest, whatever formidable challenge that might mean in their own lives. After Joseph’s death, that idea stopped being metaphorical. She realised this was now her own Everest, one she was not describing from a distance but living through in real time.

Margaret speaks about danger with clarity rather than drama. The risks she names most directly are the Khumbu Icefall, mistakes and altitude illness. These are not abstract concerns. They sit at the centre of Everest’s reality and shape the decisions she is willing to make.

Her own rule is simple. If she does not feel well, and if the weather turns for the worse, the decision to turn aroundwill be made together with her guide. The logic behind that agreement is firm: both must still go home alive to their families. The mountain will always be there.

That belief offers a more demanding definition of courage than high-altitude mythology often permits. Courage is not only the will to push upward. It is also the willingness to stop. To turn back. To recognise that pride has its own dangerous momentum and that judgment must matter more.

For Margaret, courage can look like restraint.

The mountain, then, remains a physical objective. But it is no longer the only one. This ascent is taking place through sorrow as much as through altitude. It is defined less by conquest than by endurance.