https://www.scmp.com/rss/330414/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Cory Wallace is the definition of “living with Covid”. After leaving Canada for what he thought would be an easy three-week trip, it would be some 15 months before he was able to return home. “When I left Canada the plan was to ride the Cape Epic race, and then to spend a week in Cape Town. A three-week trip,” he says. In 2020 Wallace found himself stranded in Nepal for 11 months, before the Omicron outbreak found him stuck in Africa for another six months. But he was determined to make the most... https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/article/3171957/coronavirus-canadian-cyclist-cory-wallace-used-covid-10-travel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/article/3171957/coronavirus-canadian-cyclist-cory-wallace-used-covid-10-travel?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:30:20 +0000 A vast deposit of one of the most highly coveted metals on Earth could potentially be located in the region around Mount Everest, according to Chinese scientists. The researchers’ discovery of lithium near the world’s tallest mountain comes as global demand for the metal has been skyrocketing, sending prices to record levels and further fuelling geopolitical competition for strategic resources. The ore deposit may contain as much as 1.0125 million tonnes of lithium oxide, according to the group... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3167846/china-lithium-deposit-discovered-near-mount-everest-may-be?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3167846/china-lithium-deposit-discovered-near-mount-everest-may-be?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:00:10 +0000 Three skiers have been killed and two injured in an avalanche in central Austria, authorities said on Sunday. The victims included a rising young motorbike racer. They were part of a group of 11 skiers, eight of whom were hit by a roughly 200-metre (655-foot) wide slab of snow as they ascended a slope during a ski tour on Saturday in the Tweng area, in Salzburg province. Three of the skiers were buried by the avalanche, while another two were partly buried and able to free themselves, regional... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3158572/avalanche-austria-kills-three-skiers-injures-two?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3158572/avalanche-austria-kills-three-skiers-injures-two?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Dec 2021 21:55:21 +0000 Chinese surveyors and climbers hope to scale the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday in the latest attempt to measure the precise height of the world’s tallest mountain. The last such survey in 2005 fixed its height at 8,844.43 meters (29,017.2 feet), but advances in technology over the past 15 years should allow for a more precise calculation this time around. By Sunday, the 12-strong expedition team had reached a camp a little more than a mile from the summit, Chinese state news agency Xinhua... https://www.scmp.com/china/inch-perfect-team-trying-fix-everests-exact-height/article/3086094?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/inch-perfect-team-trying-fix-everests-exact-height/article/3086094?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 May 2020 11:33:02 +0000 Taiwan, in my opinion, doesn’t get its full due in the marketing department. Travel guides and the occasional visiting journalist tout it as a night market haven, flush with meat skewers, hot pepper buns, and plates of stinky tofu. Food is the main—and most repeated—talking point, used by countless bloggers and Instagrammers who all frequent the same places in Taipei. Others fixate on the Taiwanese obsession with cats. The world’s first cat cafe allegedly spawned in Taipei, and there’s even a... https://www.scmp.com/travel/theres-more-taiwan-just-night-markets-and-cats/article/3000172?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/theres-more-taiwan-just-night-markets-and-cats/article/3000172?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:26:47 +0000