Ng Chee Soon, who at 60 was the oldest Singaporean to swim across the English Channel in a relay team, explains how he trained for swimming in the cold, the dark and more for the long-distance race.
Ruby Cheng is chasing more competitive highs in 2024, after a stellar performance at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, where she relived her Olympian mum’s swimming success
Robin Lee’s documentary is a triumph, and is a fabulous Hong Kong story that deserves to be told around the world.
Swedish climber Matilda Soderlund tells Kate Whitehead about honing her competitive spirit as an infant, finding her life’s passion in an instant and getting engaged at sunset atop Kowloon Peak.
The best places to ski this winter for beginners, experienced skiers, families, snowboarders, the one with the best après-ski parties, the up-and-coming ones – Alf Alderson gives you his top 10.
Head coach Andrew Wright says March 2024’s ‘genuine world-class event’ can revolutionise the sport in the city – ‘where else do you have a backdrop like Hong Kong’s?’
Hong Kong triathlon officials investigating effects of Covid-19 vaccine on the 24-year-old with blood tests – ‘in the past two years when he got sick, it really whacked him’.
Ruby Cheng will realise a decade-long dream when she competes in the Ironman World Championship on Saturday, having battled back from redundancy and physical and mental setbacks.
Adrenaline junkies and sensation seekers are always seeking the next thrill. They share similar brain chemistry and, like the founder of adventure community HKOutsider, love confronting their fears.
Record-setting mountaineer pushes back at suggestions her team could have done more to save Mohammad Hassan, after drone footage shows people climbing over stricken father of three on way up the mountain.
The three-time slackline world champion Jaan Roose walks along a 2.5cm-wide line for 150m at an elevation of 185m.
The duo finished their feat in 3 months and 1 day, saving the notoriously technical hike at K2 for the finale.
The Deepest Breath follows the fortunes of free-diving couple Alessia Zecchini and Stephen Keenan as they stretch human endurance to its limits.
Vivian Ying Cai wowed by the beauty of being on top of the world, but questions the amount of help it took to get there.
New mum Clarisse Cremer has made officials rethink controversial rules that would have penalised women for having a baby between two Vendee races.
Vivian Ying Cai plans to climb the highest mountain on each continent and reach the North and South Poles.
Duncan Swanson and George Darling run monotonous laps of Hong Kong’s beaches to recreate desert conditions.
Unique race combines sailing and mountain running on ‘arduous’ course, with 40-foot yacht donated by Hong Kong’s richest man to organisers Sailability.
‘It wasn’t about the race any more’: Tomokazu Ihara stops to help ‘cold, confused’ runner going in the wrong direction, showing true spirit of 298km Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge.
Hongkongers started a 24-hour race in 2010, which now takes place in 14 cities around the world, all raising money for anti-slavery charities.
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