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Playing it cool
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 09/09/2019
» When it comes to sports, skiing and skating are the last activities anyone associates with Southeast Asia. Outside of a few indoor skating rinks in big cities, the only ice you'll find is in drinks. And as for snow, it's non-existent except at the highest reaches of remote and forbidding Hkakabo Razi in northern Myanmar.
Myanmar climbers eye treacherous Hkakabo Razi
AFP, Published on 14/08/2018
» HPA-AN, Myanmar: A two-week jungle trek followed by a sheer climb up avalanche-prone slopes to a jagged ridge of icy pinnacles awaits three Myanmar mountaineers planning to take on Hkakabo Razi, a peak so treacherous it has been conquered only once.
A crash course in survival
Spectrum, Published on 04/01/2015
» After 11 days lost in the most remote and inhospitable mountain terrain in Southeast Asia, Capt Chatchawal Thanthong thought he was hallucinating. The 59-year-old Thai helicopter pilot had a broken rib and had survived on nothing but river water after crash-landing his chopper during a failed attempt to fly supplies to a search and rescue team in northernmost Myanmar.
Helicoptercrash claimspilot's life
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/10/2014
» The Myanmar pilot from the B4 rescue helicopter that went missing in Kachin state on Sept 27 has been found dead in the jungle.
Missing chopper found, crew safe
Online Reporters, Published on 07/10/2014
» All three crew members of the Thai helicopter going missing in Myanmar for 10 days have been found and rescued.
Thai 'copter still missing in Myanmar
Published on 07/10/2014
» Army authorities have asked their Myanmar counterparts for a progress report on the search for a Thai civilian helicopter missing in mountainous terrain in Kachin State since Sept 27.
Rescue helicopter missing in Myanmar
Published on 28/09/2014
» YANGON - A rescue helicopter from Thailand has lost contact with ground control during a search for two climbers who scaled Southeast Asia's highest peak a month ago, officials said Sunday.
Climbers lost on SE Asia's tallest peak
Associated Press, Published on 10/09/2014
» YANGON — Helicopters began aerial surveys Wednesday for two mountaineers who lost contact with their base camp after scaling what has long been considered Myanmar's tallest peak.