Ex-students head to Nepal to support teacher in bid to conquer Everest

When Sean Yeung Sze-shun first entered secondary school, he disliked any form of outdoor activity. While his friends played basketball, he stayed at home to play computer games.

Now 22, Yeung is an outdoor instructor.

In April, he and two other graduates of CUHKFAA Chan Chun Ha Secondary School in Ma On Shan will go to Nepal with their former teacher, Ada Tsang Yin-hung, as she bids to become the first Hong Kong woman to climb Mount Everest.

The three will spend 10 to 12 days in a small Sherpa village in the Rolwaling Valley, which sits amid the Himalayas in east-central Nepal along the Tibet border. There, they will teach local children English and maths on a volunteer basis while Tsang trains in the Himalayan mountains with her expedition team.

Then they will rejoin Tsang and set off for the Everest base camp, where she and her team will continue on to reach the top of the mountain.

"To us, Ada is both a teacher and a good friend," said Yeung, who works at the Hong Kong branch of the international outdoor education organisation Outward Bound.