Heard around Hong Kong this month

WHILE WE WERE PUFFING, wheezing and sweating our way up the likes of Ladder Street to get to happy hour drinks in Soho in May, Hongkonger Ada Tsang became the fastest woman to climb Mount Everest. The endeavour usually takes 40 days from Base Camp due to acclimatisation, but Tsang completed it in just 26 hours—14 hours faster than the previous female record holder. It seems 44-yearold Tsang, a teacher, wasn’t content with her climb of Everest in 2017, her third attempt after the first two were thwarted by avalanches, joining a rare club of local women who have reached the summit, including Annabelle Bond. Instead of flying home and getting some well-earned rest, Tsang celebrated her record by tackling another mountain, Lhotse, the fourth-highest in the world. “I always tell my team, ‘Aim high, expect high, so you can achieve high.’ When I reached the mountain top, I felt like I proved this was not just empty talk,” she told the South China Morning Post. Consider us extraordinarily in awe.