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The Shanghai Marathon is growing in popularity as a running boom takes hold in China. Photo: Shanghai Marathon Organising Committee

Chinese culture

Why China needs to build a culture to rival the great marathons

16 Apr 2018 - 1:45PM

Outdoor & Extreme

Recruiter puts grit to test in Spartan Race after loved ones fight caner

1 Nov 2017 - 10:49PM

Extraordinary mountaineer Fred Beckey dies aged 94

31 Oct 2017 - 9:19PM

Outdoor & Extreme

‘Real Moana’ says SUPyoga is an escape for imprisoned Hongkongers

31 Oct 2017 - 11:18PM

Stand-up paddle board yoga teacher Charlotte Piho has been dubbed The Real Moana because she feels at home on the water. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Outdoor & Extreme

Seeing is believing as Hong Kong nature wows hikers

24 Oct 2017 - 6:05PM

McNaughton turns training run into unbeatable performance despite cramp in HK50

21 Oct 2017 - 10:28PM

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Outdoor & Extreme

Tour de France champ blitzes Moontrekker Moonlit 30

16 Oct 2017 - 10:38PM

Cadel Evans won the Tour de France in 2011, but was not so confident about the Moonlit 30 trail race. He went on to win anyway. Photo: Barclays Moontrekker

Outdoor & Extreme

Hallucinating ultrarunner conquers Gobi’s human rocks and bush giraffes

16 Oct 2017 - 12:22PMvideocam

Outdoor & Extreme

From Everest to Lantau, Adrian Ballinger expects to suffer

13 Oct 2017 - 1:16PM

Outdoor & Extreme

Lawyer inspired by Hong Kong’s running culture shoots for moon

11 Oct 2017 - 11:08AM

Louise Forsyth will run Moontrekker, only a few weeks after her first boxing match in white collar fight nigh. She was named fighter of the night. Photo: Vanda Promotions

Video | Nepali teen climber returns to hero’s welcome

15 Oct 2024 - 6:00PM

Nepal record-setting teen climber returns home to hero’s welcome

Diversity and inclusion

CrossFit star Sara Sigmundsdottir on why muscles are beautiful

Icelandic CrossFit superstar Sara Sigmundsdottir launches her first clothing line and is part of a trend of female athletes smashing traditional norms of beauty.

4 Oct 2021 - 7:11PM

Video | China’s extreme ice-fishing brothers hook online fans

29 Apr 2020 - 3:42PM

Video | Amazing aerobatics in China

10 Jun 2019 - 5:39PM

Thrilling aerobatics fill the skies to open air show in central China

Playing hide and seek with Himalaya’s snow leopards at 13,000ft

Once-endangered animals are tourist attraction high up on Himalaya’s frozen slopes in India’s Ladakh region … but there are no guarantees you will see them

6 May 2018 - 4:00PM

A remote camera captures a snow leopard at Hemis National Park in Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state. Photo: Steve Winter/National Geographic

Injured McNaughton finds strength in limitations to podium in Fuji trail race

1 May 2018 - 12:50PM

Rodrigo Koxa rides the biggest wave ever surfed; sets new world record

30 Apr 2018 - 3:38PMvideocam

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Runaway dogs and frozen breath: Hongkongers sled through Arctic

26 Apr 2018 - 9:57PM

Philip Murton rides a dogsled through the arctic. Photos: Handout

Exclusive | Heroic Polish climbers announce second winter attempt on K2

24 Apr 2018 - 6:15PM

Human powered seven summits one of the greatest adventures of our time

23 Apr 2018 - 1:44PM

Video | Belgian adventurer on journey to climb the highest mountain on every continent under his own power

23 Apr 2018 - 12:03PM

Belgian adventurer on journey to climb the highest mountain on every continent under his own power

Take it all in stride: Hongkonger dodges cars and snow to run length of UK

20 Apr 2018 - 2:58PM

Kenneth Chan at Land's End in the UK, the finish line of his 1,300km run from John O’ Groats. Photos: Handout

Gerard Butler has a lot to answer for – Spartan Race

17 Apr 2018 - 6:46PM

Samantha Chan wins Guilin ultra marathon – despite getting lost

17 Apr 2018 - 2:40PM

Swimming with orcas in Norway: a first-hand account

The six-tonne giants, which are actually the largest dolphins, work together to trap their prey – spring-spawning herrings

12 Apr 2018 - 2:30PMvideocam

The six-tonne orca is not a whale, despite its ‘killer whale’ name, but rather, the largest kind of dolphins. Photo: Thinkstock

Even getting to the start is a challenge as Dykes aims to walk all 6,437km of the Yangtze

9 Apr 2018 - 4:50PM

Ash Dykes walking the length of Madagascar. This summer he will embark on a longer journey to be the first person to walk the length of Yangtze. Photos: Handout

Blind runner returns to Arctic to ‘release fear and put trust in guide’

11 Mar 2018 - 9:47PM

Top climber feels the Hong Kong heat at inaugural bouldering cup

11 Mar 2018 - 11:03PM

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The thrills of ice climbing and how to get started

From China to the Canadian Rockies, ice climbing is a popular niche in the mountaineering world. We talk to the people who find joy in scaling frozen waterfalls and ice-coated crags as they make their sub-zero ascents

11 Mar 2018 - 9:38AM

Sharp axes, crampons and safety equipment are all essential for ice climbing – especially a helmet to protect you from falling chunks of ice of varying sizes. Photo: Alamy

What do World Cup winner Greenwood and terrifying sea zombies have in common?

27 Feb 2018 - 10:07PM

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018

Want to be a Hong Kong Winter Olympian? Here’s where to train

Teenager Arabella Ng was Hong Kong’s sole athlete at Pyeongchang, but with Hong Kong offering more winter sports facilities than you might expect for both serious training and leisure, it could be a different story in four years

26 Feb 2018 - 2:34PM

Ski touring Japan: go off-piste and explore Hakuba’s vast wilderness

If you long for thigh-deep powder and untouched runs, look no further than ski touring. The activity takes you away from the resorts, and gets you climbing mountains and speeding down them, all while you are strapped in

20 Feb 2018 - 11:13PM

Two ski tourers skin up a mountain in Hakuba, Japan. Photo: Alf Alderson

Hong Kong executive heads to Himalayas to find camaraderie in ‘randomness’

14 Feb 2018 - 2:23PM

Quintessentially executive chairman Emma Sherrard Matthews trekking through Bhutan in the Himalayas. Photos: Handouts

Teachers conquer first paddle board around Lantau to highlight piles of plastic

7 Feb 2018 - 2:38PM

Antarctic explorer passes torch to son at South Pole

5 Feb 2018 - 2:37PM

Swim around Hong Kong in record cold as father balances fun and coaching

3 Feb 2018 - 10:41AM

Bill and Kenneth Thorley – Ken coaches his son in open water swimming but balances pushing him and making sure he has fun. Photos: Handout