Mountain
In Nature, We Trust
Because trails provide
This is my habitat
What did true Australian fauna feel like? When habits at Aussie alpine highlands, how tough the vegetation can be? And the only way to find out the texture of stubbornness and the tough spine of plantation core is by travelling through it with a unique Aussie way to interact with the environment called bush-bashing.
The most demanding heavy load hiking experience so far in Down Under; extra snow gear weighted the pack til 20kg, daily moving distance 22km with 2000m overall elevation gain, struggling while pushing through the knee-deep floofy snow, hitting zero degrees at night. It’s those kinds of experiences that make me aware of the sense of alteration in physical capability and nature.
The first hike with Melbourne University Mountaineering Club; this is how most outdoorsy people in Melbourne experience backcountry
170km, three countries, around Mont Blanc
It’s a hike, but it’s also the essence of European outdoor philosophy
The mountain, trail, humanity, and culture have so much to offer
While talking through those miles, those distances also travel through me
Make me rediscover myself and how humans move
At this one of the pinnacles of international mountaineering and alpinism education festival, seeking and learning how outdoor and mountaineering education can be experienced through brand, conversation, and in-depth opinion. It’s a role model style of immersive learning for me in terms of understanding and shaping the way I build my environmental experience design project.
Taken three clinics during the festival: Mountaineering, Glaciology & Permafrost, and First Aid & Emergency Response.
My first time outdoors sport climbing and crack climbing, a week deep into the mountain, training with the best climber in China, aware of and embracing the new level of physical pain, which can lead me to the unimaginable height ground
The greatest challenge among all my outdoor adventures, attempting to summit the highest peak in the Southern Hemisphere and South America, this one-month expedition took my one whole year of training, planning out and testing nutrition strategy, and figuring out the equipment. I came to realize that sometimes it’s all about endurance and stamina, especially in life; your resilience determines where and how far you can reach. While you are the only one to rely on, facing the sublimity head-on forces you to rethink when evolution offers nature such indestructible force, and humans’ relationship with it. Also, it’s my first time joining the expedition team as a translator between local alpine guides and the Taiwanese expedition team.
Up there in the alpine, everything slows down: time, cognition, feeling, sense of self, even the pain or struggle. Since I turned 18, I can’t veto the calling of nature anymore; it’s a stage of life that my heart keeps telling me to go outside, push, and explore your limits, test the unknown, understand the fear and danger, to seek what is the thing that you truly value. 18 years old, first time overseas Himalayas-style expedition, first 6000m peak really got me; I reached a point when I had to decide: I kept pushing even though it would drain me and I’d be completely gone and dead, or quit the summit and retreat; sometimes the edges of consequences of those hard choices will fade away under this vague awareness(because hypoxemia), after this moment of life and death, I learned to trust my judgement under most extreme condition.
My first time overseas long-distance hike; I treated it as pre-expedition training and a test ground, an experience that was evolutionarily redefining how I understand the ways Nordic share the interconnected lived cultural philosophy with nature and landscape; those mornings sitting in the tent, gazing out into the horizon in between the valley, I thought the world was mine.
After falling in love with nature, this type of Taiwanese environmental beauty is something I have yet to experience until now.
My first-time long-distance hike
My first time overseas mountaineering training
