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Mount Everest: Chinese team summit during pandemic

The team are the only climbers to summit this season, and are re-measuring the height.

Son Doong cave among 10 best virtual tours of natural wonders

The Guardian has published a list featuring the top 10 best virtual tours of the world’s natural wonders, with Son Doong cave located in Vietnam's Quang Binh Province being named among them.

From indulgence to endurance, athlete scales a peak

Pham Duy Cuong’s 35th birthday was celebrated far away from the family, but his fellow athletes made it extra special by presenting a cake with candles in a tent at a height of 5,000m above sea level on Mount Everest.

Spending time with a ‘disappearing’ people

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Mai Huong quit a regular job to travel full time, and is rewarded with a once-in-a-lifetime experience in northernmost Mongolia with the Tsaatan tribe. Hong Van reports.

World’s first woman who visits globe’s three extremes comes to Vietnam

People cannot imagine how a small and slender woman with eyeglasses on her gentle face and her short hair with bangs has had such great courage and determination to become the first Hong Kong person and the first woman in the world

Nepal quake 'followed historic pattern'

 Nepal's devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake on Saturday was primed over 80 years ago by its last massive earthquake in 1934, which razed around a quarter of Kathmandu to the ground and killed over 17,000 people.

Nepal earthquake: Tent cities set up for the displaced

 Vast tent cities have sprung up for those displaced by the earthquake in Nepal, which is now reported to have killed some 2,500 people.

Places for a vacation: Son Doong Cave

 VietNamNet Bridge – Son Doong Cave in Viet Nam's Quang Binh Province has been suggested by the American news website huffingtonpost.com as one of the places to visit in 20 years.

Cyclist falls in love with nature

 VietNamNet Bridge – Truong Van Phuc has travelled to the northern provinces of Viet Nam by motorbike with his friends many a time. However, a 15-day bicycle trip from Ha Noi to Ca Mau, the southernmost point of the country

Japan man, 80, starts Everest ascent

 An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his ascent of Mount Everest, his website said, in a bid to become the oldest man to reach the roof of the world.

Making our way up Mount Fansipan

VietNamNet Bridge – Mount Fansipan is only half as tall as Mount Everest. Yet this mountain, perched at the eastern edge of the Himalayan range in Vietnam’s uppermost Lao Cai Province, is hardly an easy climb.