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Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: explorer inspires youth through glacial field trips

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Chow, J. (2026, October 10). Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: explorer inspires youth through glacial field trips. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3370424/spirit-hong-kong-awards-explorer-inspires-youth-through-glacial-field-trips?utm_source=rss_feed

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Wilson Cheung, a glaciologist, mentors young people through hands-on field trips to glaciers. Recently, he led Hong Kong secondary school students on a trip to the Swiss Alps where they encountered challenges due to glacier melt and rockfall, making certain areas unsafe for exploration. Earlier in 2026, Cheung completed a scientific snowkite traverse across Greenland while collecting data. He emphasizes that seeing physical changes firsthand reinforces the measurements and data collected about environmental shifts.
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Wilson Cheung, a glaciologist from Hong Kong, mentors young people through hands-on field science by taking them to remote locations like the Swiss Alps and Greenland. This summer, during a trip to the Swiss Alps with secondary school students from Hong Kong, Cheung found that terrain he previously accessed had become inaccessible due to glacier melt and thawing ground destabilizing parts of the mountain and increasing rockfall hazards. Just weeks earlier in 2026, Cheung completed an approximately 1,700km (1,056-mile) scientific snowkite traverse across Greenland's ice sheet while collecting crucial data. His firsthand experiences underscore the tangible impacts of climate change on these regions, emphasizing the importance of fieldwork for understanding environmental changes.

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Wilson Cheung’s unconventional path to career in glaciology helps him mentor young people through hands-on field science When Wilson Cheung took Hong Kong secondary school students into the Swiss Alps this summer, terrain he had once been able to reach had become inaccessible.
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2026-10-10 · South China Morning Post
Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: explorer inspires youth through glacial field trips · assertive framing

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Wilson Cheung’s unconventional path to career in glaciology helps him mentor young people through hands-on field science When Wilson Cheung took Hong Kong secondary school students into the Swiss Alps this summer, terrain he had once been able to reach had become inaccessible. asserted
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Glacier melt and thawing ground had destabilised parts of the mountain, while rockfall made fieldwork more hazardous. asserted
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Only weeks earlier, Cheung had completed a roughly 1,700km (1,056-mile) scientific snowkite traverse across Greenland in 2026. asserted
Cheung → complete → 2026
The journey took him across the ice sheet while he continued collecting data in one of the world’s most extreme environments. asserted
he → take → environments
“We can see it in the measurements, but when we are actually there, we see the physical changes in front of you,” he said. asserted
he → see → you
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