A HIKE up a mountain in Langkawi island three years ago turned Robert Junqi Wild into a mountaineering buff.
Robert is only 15 and an otherwise typical Beatty Secondary School student. But since 2005, he has scaled several peaks and aims to complete the Seven Summits by the time he is 19.
The Seven Summits are the world' seven highest mountains, one from each of the seven continents.
Robert, who is Eurasian, said he enjoyed his mountain trek while in Langakwi, which is off the Kedah coast.
Then, while on a holiday in 2006, he made a spur of the moment decision to climb the 4,095-m high Mount Kinabalu in Sabah.
He 'suffered' as he lacked warm clothing then, but he was hooked.
Read the full story in tomorrow's edition of The Sunday Times.
