Grief and guilt led ex-Hongkonger to start climbing mountains. She’s written a book about her feats, full of poignant memories of growing up in the city

Climbing the Seven Volcanoes: A Search for Strength, by Sophie Cairns, Amberley, 4 stars When Sophie Cairns’ parents announced that the family was leaving Hong Kong, where she was born and raised, she vowed to return. A teenager, biracial and fluent in Cantonese, she never felt like she belonged in the UK, and longed for the Hong Kong of her childhood. Cairns later joined the South China Morning Post as a reporter and was working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Shanghai, China, when…

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