Kumaran Rasappan is an Associate Consultant with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University Hospital (NUH).

He is the first Singapore doctor to summit Mt Everest, and the first Singaporean to climb the world’s highest peaks for charity, Dr Kumaran won the Singapore Youth Award and the ASEAN Youth Award in 2014 for his achievements.

Kumaran and his wife, Dr Gayathri Devi Nadarajan, return to Nepal annually, leading Singaporean medical students and doctors to provide humanitarian aid to the Sherpas and Nepali villagers whom they have come to call friends.