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      <title>Hong Kong's five most extreme hiking trails: A visual guide to risk and safety</title>
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      <description>For joggers who stick to their fitness plans for a year, completing a half-marathon (21km, about 13 miles) race already ranks pretty highly.
For property agent Sayaka Matsumoto, running more than 30km, 50km or even reaching the benchmark of 100km over mountainous terrain is something to look forward to – a 16-to-18-hour break from life’s stresses with an earthen trail underfoot, undergrowth along her path and the open sky.

Completing ultra-marathons requires passion more than profession.
At...</description>
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      <title>Pleasure and pain: on trail of Hong Kong ultra-marathon runner as she faces city’s 100km challenge</title>
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      <description>The 23-metre ketch Lady Eugenie is moored just off the east coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania, where guides Adrien Butler, Maddy Davies and passengers hop aboard for a three-day Wineglass Bay sail-hike trip with Tasmanian Walking.
The first hike is to Haunted Bay – about a four-hour circuit. We drop anchor at Shoal Bay, and head ashore to follow a sandy track into a forest of blue gums, eating native cherries as we go. Ninety minutes later we scramble down a trail to the rocky...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2018 03:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hike and sail Tasmania’s stunning east coast in style: no boots required</title>
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      <description>A Hong Kong hiker died after collapsing in warm weather near the Shing Mun Reservoir at midday on Saturday.
The 71-year-old, surnamed Cheung, was walking along stage seven of the MacLehose Trail with friends when he fainted close to Needle Hill and the reservoir in Sha Tin, hurting his head.
One of the man’s friends called rescuers to the scene and when they arrived they tried to resuscitate him. But he was unconscious when a government helicopter airlifted him to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern...</description>
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      <description>A hiker died on Sunday after falling into a pool in Sha Tau Kok, where she was reportedly posing for photos.
The 42-year-old woman started her trek from Luk Keng in Pat Sin Leng Country Park on Sunday morning. She ran into two other hikers, and they headed to Ping Ka Stream together.
When they reached the upper part of the stream at about 4.40pm, the woman, who was a waitress from Kwun Tong, reportedly asked her new companions to take some pictures of her.
But she slipped and fell three metres...</description>
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      <description>If all goes to plan, 19-year-old Benjamin Chan will conquer Earth’s tallest mountain come early May and tick an item off his bucket list.
The Hongkonger is attempting to make history by becoming the city’s youngest person ever to scale Mount Everest – 8,848 metres in height and the highest above sea level in the world.

But the trek will be a mere stopover in a more ambitious goal: to become the youngest person in the world to reach the seven highest summits on all seven continents plus the...</description>
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      <description>Humanity has been to both poles, climbed to the peak of Everest, reached the depths of the oceans and even landed a man on the moon. There is little left for us to explore – but China’s West remains an undiscovered region, devoid of precedents.
Among many of the explorers utilising the last opportunity to stamp their names in the history books are Hongkongers Adrian Bottomley and China-based Kyle Obermann.
The pair are forging new routes in Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan.
“We have this huge area of...</description>
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      <title>Meet the pioneers exploring the final frontier in Western China using just Google Earth and imagination</title>
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      <description>Hong Kong bomb disposal officers detonated an artillery shell found by trekkers on Saturday along a popular hiking trail in Tai Tam.
Police said the bomb was found around distance post C4107 on Tai Tam Country Trail near Hong Kong Parkview housing estate at about 2pm.


The force confirmed it was a British-style mortar shell from around the second world war, about 300mm long and 81mm wide. The bomb was initially reported to be no larger than a 330ml soda can.
Officers from the Explosive Ordnance...</description>
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      <description>The booths lining Sai Kung public piers offer an array of boat tours to nearby islands and scenic coastlines.
Excursions to view the Hong Kong Geopark’s volcanic rock formations are tempting, but there are options for rewarding shorter rides within the natural harbour of Port Shelter.
Two of the best places to head, which you can readily combine in a day, are Yim Tin Tsai, an islet where a village has been restored, and Sharp Island – named for its angular shape.


At just over 500 metres (550...</description>
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      <description>Dawn is hours away on a cool Fiordland night but the packed bunk rooms of Clinton Hut are seething with activity. Hiking boots stomp against wooden floors, bunks creek as their inhabitants fling their bodies around, and an urgent, sleep-fogged crescendo of angry whispers is building in the gloom.
“Shhhhh,” hisses someone from a top bunk, directing their wrath towards the noisy hiking party who like to walk in the dark, the New Zealand bush enveloping them in a silent black cloak.
“Shhhhh,”...</description>
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      <title>New Zealand’s Milford Track being spoilt by tourist hordes wanting to tick ‘world’s finest walk’ off bucket list</title>
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      <description>Wooded hillsides, craggy ridges and wheeling birds of prey are a world away from Hong Kong’s skyscrapers – but the city’s country parks are a necessary balm for its stressed out residents.
With some of the world’s highest property prices, Hong Kong’s fast-paced lifestyle and long working hours also take their toll.
Fortunately, within easy reach of the densely packed tower blocks and traffic, there is an extensive network of hiking trails which snake over hundreds of peaks and along...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2018 07:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Wild Hong Kong: fans of country parks oppose concreting of trails, taking land for homes</title>
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      <description>As more Hongkongers take to the countryside to escape the city’s buzz, the rising frequency of mountain rescue missions has shown they are too often under-equipped for their excursion.
Two walkers died in two days last month as the cooler weather encouraged many to take to the hills.
The number of hikes taken in Hong Kong rose steadily from 12.2 million in 2005 to 13.3 million in 2015, while mountain rescues have more than doubled from 138 in 2005 to 357 in 2016.
Phillip Forsyth, the leader of...</description>
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      <description>Elton Ng Chun Ting, who became the seventh Hongkonger to conquer Mount Everest (8,448 metres) in May, never wastes a minute. Even during the seven weeks that he was stuck at base camp – at an altitude of 5,334m – waiting for the weather to improve so he could begin the final ascent to Everest’s summit, he made sure he put his time to good use.


While extreme weather let rip outside, Ng was able to finish the office work he had brought with him, and to complete the write-up of his latest book...</description>
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      <title>Seventh Hongkonger to conquer Mount Everest says he never wastes a minute</title>
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      <description>When you step off the ferry on Cheung Chau – a small, dumbbell-shaped island off the southwest coast of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island – you will likely find crowds comparable to those of Mong Kok’s Ladies Market. What few visitors realise, however, is that you only have to walk a little before the crowds thin out and you can find pleasant stretches of trail and lovely quieter areas.
First, head to the main beach at Tung Wan. As you come off the ferry pier, turn right and then promptly left,...</description>
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      <title>How to hike Cheung Chau without the crowds: a guide to Hong Kong’s dumbbell island</title>
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      <description>A woman died after falling from a steep slope dubbed “suicide cliff” in a Hong Kong country park on Wednesday, making it the second fatal hiking accident in the city within four days.
Lee Chuk-ching, 48, was airlifted to hospital, but was declared dead after arriving.
She was with a group of 12 people who set off for Kowloon Peak, also known as Fei Ngo Shan, from Jat’s incline in Choi Hung at about 9.30am on Wednesday. The mountain is located in Ma On Shan Country Park.
Emergency personnel,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hiker dies after fall from ‘suicide cliff’ in Hong Kong country park</title>
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      <description>A hiker was killed on Sunday in a fall from a popular but notoriously treacherous ridge on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island.
The 69-year-old man had set off with a group of about 15 people from Shek Pik in Lantau South Country Park in the morning.
They reached Kau Nga Ling, which literally translates as “dog teeth ridges”, a name derived from the steep gradient of slopes in the area, at about 1.30pm.
The man was said to have been climbing up a spot dubbed “slim chance of survival” by mountaineers.
He...</description>
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      <description>From the Dragon’s Back to Kowloon Peak, Hong Kong has plenty of trails to discover, and walking becomes easier as the weather cools, but wherever you plan to hike you need to be ready to ramble. That means finding a good backpack that is big enough to take the essentials while still being lightweight enough for you to tackle steep ascents.
7 cold-weather essentials for Hong Kong hikers, runners and frost chasers
Avoid the temptation to carry too much – a sure fire way to ruin any day out – by...</description>
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      <title>Seven of the best backpacks for hiking in Hong Kong this winter</title>
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      <description>Just as he has done every year for the past 25 years, Naoyuki Kobayashi is packing hiking equipment, cold weather gear and the maps and notebooks that might yet help him to find the last missing Japanese climber on the flanks of a remote mountain in Yunnan province, China.
A journey that has become an annual pilgrimage begins on November 23 this year, with Kobayashi, 48, leaving his home in Yokohama, Japan, for Kang Karpo, the highest mountain in Yunnan and one that is revered by locals as part...</description>
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      <description>Legendary mountain climber Fred Beckey, who wrote dozens of books and is credited with notching more first ascents than any other American mountaineer, has died.
He was 94.
Megan Bond, a close friend who managed his affairs, told Associated Press that Beckey died of natural causes in her Seattle home on Monday.

“He was an extraordinary mountaineer. He also had a personality and humour that almost dwarfed the mountains around him,” Bond said. “He was a brilliant writer. He was a scholar. He...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>American climbing icon Fred Beckey, responsible for dozens of first ascents, dies aged 94</title>
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      <description>Would you go trekking in the Himalayas without someone to show you the way?
For those who think that travelling with a guide – and possibly a tour group in tow – is not really getting away from it all, the self-guided trek is emerging as a viable option in some unexpected destinations.
Expedition travel on the rise as interest in adventure holidays grows – are you fit enough to make the cut?
Australian travel company World Expeditions recently announced an 11-day self-guided trek in the Everest...</description>
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      <title>How self-guided walking holidays in Asia can make hikers feel like travellers, not tourists</title>
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      <description>Hong Kong’s reputation as a concrete jungle was shattered for hundreds of international hikers who took part in the Fjällräven Classic Hong Kong.
The Classic is a 47-kilometre unsupported hike over three days. The participants are required to carry everything they need for their hike through the New Territories, including food, gas stoves and tents for camping.
There is a Classic in Sweden, Denmark and the US.
At the intersection of stage three and four on the Maclehose, 352 hikers that came...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 07:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Where the tropical forest, ocean and city meet, conceptions of Hong Kong are blown away</title>
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      <description>Productivity is a funny old thing. Office workers are stuck at their desks longer than ever, and yet, it is time outdoors that benefit their employers, at least one start-up believes.
A new company, Just Challenge, hopes to take desk jockeys away from their comfort zones and into extreme situations.
“When you’re in a remote and challenging environment, titles and seniority become irrelevant and barriers are removed,” said Lucy Bennett-Baggs, founder of Just Challenge.
“A challenge encourages...</description>
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      <title>Resilience, leadership and teamwork – taking your employees to extreme environments</title>
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      <description>A Hongkonger was killed and another injured after the pair were struck by falling snow and rocks while climbing a Swiss mountain last Thursday.
They were part of a group of four Hong Kong mountaineers scaling the south face of Eiger, a 3,967-metre peak in the Bernese Alps, near Grindelwald in Bern.
The accident happened at about 1.40pm Swiss time, according to local media.


The group were hiking on the Obers Ischmeer glacier and heading towards Eismeer railway station, an underground structure...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Falling rocks kill Hongkonger and injure another during climb on Swiss mountain</title>
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      <description>An elderly man who went missing for 20 hours while hiking in a Hong Kong country park, prompting a large-scale search operation, found his way home on his own on Wednesday evening.
The man, 71, left his Sha Tin home and set off for Lion Rock Country Park on Tuesday afternoon.
His wife, 70, lost contact with him after they last spoke on the phone at about 10pm. The man said he had lost his way.
Cost to rescue two stranded hikers in Hong Kong runs into hundreds of thousands
Police said he had been...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 05:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Soaring above the new town that bears its name, Ma On Shan – Horse Saddle Mountain – is among Hong Kong’s most distinctive and highest peaks. While it is also near the expanding Sai Kung town, it makes for outstanding hiking through majestic landscapes that in places seem remote from urban areas.
Reaching the top is somewhat challenging, but the rewards are panoramic views from the most splendid summit in Hong Kong. Even if you pass by the main peak, there’s much to enjoy. A word of warning:...</description>
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      <title>Hong Kong’s best hikes: climbing Ma On Shan peak – all you need to know</title>
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      <description>Solitude was the last thing I expected to find in Jiuzhaigou national park. The 72,000 hectare reserve is renowned for its fairy-tale landscapes, drawing tens of thousands of visitors every day from all corners of China and beyond.
Located in Sichuan province, 400km north of Chengdu, Jiuzhaigou – named after the nine Tibetan villages scattered throughout the park and, since 1992 a natural Unesco World Heritage site – is lauded as being heaven on Earth by some of those who have seen its...</description>
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      <title>Hiking the Jiuzhaigou national park – a pristine paradise in Sichuan where you can still escape the crowds</title>
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      <description>Five hikers have been killed by an avalanche on a popular hiking trail near Vancouver, devastating the city’s Korean community.
Rescuers said they had recovered the bodies of four of the hikers who went missing on Saturday, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement on Sunday. Local media reported later that the body of the fifth hiker had been found.
RCMP received a distress call on Saturday from another hiker after a cornice collapsed on the peak of Mount Harvey, 33km north of...</description>
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      <title>Vancouver mountain tragedy: five hikers from Korean community killed by avalanche on popular trail</title>
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      <description>Macau has plenty of people, diverse food and a mix of cultures, but very little land to fit it all into. And yet, even in this crowded city, there are places to leave the hordes behind and hike through quiet forest.
Macau’s two former islands of Taipa and Coloane have long been joined together by reclamation for The Venetian Macau and other hotel-casino complexes, but the southern half of Coloane retains its peaceful character, and its forested hills are crossed by an interlocking network of...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Macau’s hiking trails offer the great escape from the shops and casino crowds</title>
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      <description>A fireman injured in a cliff fall while rescuing an off-duty policeman and his girlfriend died ­on Wednesday minutes after a heroic effort by colleagues to get him to hospital.
Yau Siu-ming, 50, lost his footing and slipped during an all-night search and rescue operation that began on Tuesday when the couple became trapped after getting into difficulty in a treacherous part of Ma On Shan Country Park.


The principal fireman was carried down in a coma but it took 10 hours for rescuers to reach...</description>
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      <title>Heroic Hong Kong fireman dies in  clifftop rescue drama</title>
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      <description>The government is facing an uphill battle to encourage hikers to be more environmentally aware and reduce the amount of litter left in country parks, figures show.
In September 2015, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department launched its Take Your Litter Home public education programme in a bid to reduce the number of rubbish bins on trails. About 256 litter bins – almost half of the total number – were removed by the end of 2016.
How social media and lack of research have increased...</description>
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      <title>Trail etiquette, a new breed of Hong Kong hikers and useful trekking apps</title>
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      <description>Hikers in Hong Kong are increasingly dicing with death by ignoring safety advice and embarking on trails despite being ill-prepared, experts warn.
According to statistics, the annual number of mountain rescues by the fire department increased from 138 in 2005 to 357 in 2016 – coinciding also with the growing number of hikers.
Data from the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department showed that country park visitors grew from 12.2 million in 2005/6 to 13.3 million in 2015/16. Before that,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2017 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>It’s not unusual these days to venture into Hong Kong’s countryside to get away from it all, only to find it teeming with other hikers seeking an escape from city life. Sometimes you even have to queue to start walking on a trail.
Little more than a decade ago, this scenario would have been unthinkable. I’ve been hiking in Hong Kong for 30 years, and have seen a remarkable upturn in the numbers of people heading to the outdoors. I recall wondering why people were seemingly so uninterested in the...</description>
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