In 2003, three months before his son was born, John Tsang Chi-sing climbed Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. He looked in awe over the snow-covered peaks in the US state of Alaska, and dreamed of climbing the world’s highest mountain with his son. That dream was realised this May when he and his 18-year-old son, Bob Tsang Long-kit,...
John Tsang and his 18-year-old son Bob on the summit of Everest earlier this year. They talk about the physical and mental challenges they overcame to reach the summit.In 2003, three months before his son was born, John Tsang Chi-sing climbed Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. He looked in awe over the snow-covered peaks in the US state of Alaska, and dreamed of climbing the world’s highest mountain with his son.
“Mountaineering has been [dad’s] way of teaching me how to face challenges in school and daily life,” says Bob. “A lot of parents teach simple life lessons at home or in a safe environment – he likes to take me to dangerous places.” After several years working at Outward Bound, he went to university to study recreation and outdoor management and then founded Alpine Adventure Travel, an overseas mountaineering expedition travel company that brings people to climb mountains all over the world.
As an expedition leader, he regularly hears about inexperienced climbers who just want to pay the money to climb and are reluctant to turn back if the weather is poor. That is a recipe for disaster – on average, five climbers die on the 8,848-metre mountain a year.
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