Alvin Yong and Tai Jin Chin are a husband and wife team. They are both adventurers at heart who love the great outdoor - they rock climb, trek, camp, cave and ski all around the world, from Asia to Australia to Europe to USA to Africa.

Stone Edge was born entrepreneurially in 1995 out of their love for adventure and their passion for creative architecture of experiential learning.

With a belief that whatever their minds can conceive, they can achieve, Alvin and Jin set out on their enterprising adventure to create new possibilities to shape adventure for the new generations in Singapore. They went on to design and install climbing walls in the Singapore Polytechnics, Damai Secondary School, the Health Zone in the Singapore Institute of Health, and the TOUCH Diabetes Support Centre. They also designed and built adventure playgrounds for the kids at the Hong Kah Town Council and the Clementi Sport Hall.

From 1995 to 2000, Alvin volunteered his service as the Vice President of the Singapore Mountaineering Federation, the national body overseeing the promotion and development of the sports of climbing and mountaineering in Singapore. As the climbing sport was still at its infancy in Singapore back in the mid 90s, Alvin saw the need to anchor the development of the sport by means of formulating a set of national standards. He initiated and led a select committee to develop and launch the Singapore National Climbing Standards. It took him over 2 years to develop the standards and to eventually launch the SNCS in 1997. SNCS remains to date the national certification scheme for all climbing courses and climbing instructor training in Singapore.

Alvin and Jin believe that adventure is a great medium for experiential education and personal development. They fired up their spirit of creativity and created unique and out-of-the-world experiential programmes for families, school and corporate clients, and brought them out of their home, classrooms and offices into the embrace of Mother Nature. Using the trees, slopes, streams, lakes and cliffs, the couple opened up the minds of participants to learn about themselves, from both team and individual perspectives, as well as enhancing their self-confidence, team work, communication and leadership.

Experiential Architecture, as they called this "hobby" of theirs, is a lifelong passion. Feel free to email them to discuss your needs or just for a friendly chat.

"There's no virtue in easy victory." - Sir Edmund Hillary

Alvin Yong and Tai Jin Chin