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SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1976
C.A.S. MEM LEARN MOUNTAIN TECHNIQUES IN U.K.
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THE TEMPERATURE WAS SOARING TO 35 DEGREES CENTIGRADE ON A SUMMER AFTERNOON WITH SWELTERING HEAT ENGULFING THE PICTURESCUE SNOWDONIA IN NORTH WALES. MOST WOULD HAVE STAYED INDOORS TO EVADE THE INTENSE HEAT, BUT FIVE MEN FROM HONG KONG BRAVED THE BLAZING SUN AND FOUGHT THEIR WAY UP THE 3,262-FOOT MOUNT TREFAN.
A SENSE OF KEEN INTEREST AND VIGOUR WAS WRITTEN ON THEIR SUN-TANNED FACES AS THEY SCRAMBLED UP THE MOUNTAIN. THERE WAS DISCIPLINE IN THEIR MOVEMENT EVERYONE CHARTING THEIR MOVES WITH MILITARY PRECISION.
IT WAS ONE OF THEIR STRENUOUS DAYS IN BRITAIN. FOR TWO MONTHS, THEY MOVED UP AND DOWN THE HILLY SLOPES AND MOUNTAIN RANGES OF SCOTLAND AND NORTH WALES, PICKING UP THE LATEST TECHNIQUES IN TAMING THE MOUNTAINS.
THE FIVE ROBUST MOUNTAINEERS WERE, IN FACT, MEMBERS FROM THE MOUNTAIN RESCUE UNIT OF HONG KONG'S CIVIL AID SERVICES (CAS) WHO ARRIVED IN BRITAIN ON MAY 20 TO ATTEND A TWO-MONTH INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSE IN MOUNTAIN CRAFT AS WELL AS SEARCH AND RESCUE TECHNIQUES.
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE CAS SENT THEIR MOUNTAIN RESCUERS ABROAD FOR FURTHER TRAINING.
+THE TRAINING WAS HARSH AND INTENSIVE, BUT WE GOT A LOT OUT OF OUR TWO MONTHS HERE+, MR. CHENG SUNG-NGAR, A SENIOR TRAINING OFFICER OF THE CAS, REMARKED ON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE.
TO MR. LUK CHEUNG-CHUEN, A VOLUNTEER MEMBER, THE TWO-MONTH PROGRAMME CONSOLIDATED HIS KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD OF MOUNTAIN SEARCH AND RESCUE WHILE AT THE SAME TIME TAUGHT HIM A GREAT DEAL HA IN MOUNTAIN LEADERSHIP AND CRAFT.
+ THE COURSE NOT ONLY GAVE US A COMPREHENSIVE GROUNDING IN THE PRACTICAL SKILLS IN MOUNTAIN RESCUE BUT ALSO AFFORDED US AN INVALUABLE UNDERSTANDING OF MOUNTAINEERING AS AN ART, SAID MR. WONG SHUT-YING, A FULL-TIME CAS TRAINING OFFICER. WE ARE NOW BETTER ABLE TO CARRY OUR DUTIES IN THE HILLS OF HONG KONG.+
INSTRUMENTAL IN ARRANGING THE TRAINING PROGRAMME WERE THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR PHYSICAL RECREATION.
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