On This Day | First Hongkonger to reach North, South Poles returns home in 2006 – from the SCMP archive

This article was first published on January 6, 2006

By Ng Kang-chung

South Pole in the bag … next stop Greenland

Fresh from a history-making expedition to the South Pole, Hong Kong adventurer Chung Kin-man is already planning his next great challenge.

Chung, 52, who with 54-year-old Shenzhen entrepreneur Wang Shi became the first Chinese to climb the highest peaks on seven continents and visit both poles, returned to Hong Kong yesterday (January 5, 2006). He is already preparing for a mission to Greenland.

“I am not crazy,” he said of his seemingly never-ending expeditions to the remotest parts of the planet. “To me, there is no mission impossible. You need to set goals in your life. I am no dreamer. I like to make dreams come true.”