It is reported that a soaring mountain that extend along the border between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and China in the middle of remote Tien Shan bears a name that is well known to Singapore: Ong Teng Cheong peak.
On June 28 2017 it was officially recognised by the Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Federation of Kazahkstan with naming of 4,743m tall mountain naming after Singapore’s first elected president.
It is alleged to be the foremost mountain in the world entitled after a Singaporean.
On July 29, 2005 the peak was first conquered by a team from Singapore.
Kazakhstan offers a individual the honour of christening a mountain if he was the foremost to climb it, and has yield to documents such as a testimony of its exact geographical whereabouts and the mountaineering route for endorsement.