Tai To Yan (566m) is a challenging ridge hike located near the Tai Mo Shan country park. The climb to the summit from the Kadoorie farm is particularly challenging due to its unrelenting continuous incline. The trail however is well maintained with many steps. The highlight is the razor-sharp ridge which gives the name of this summit with awesome views from both sides. On a sunny day, the views of New Territory, Tai Mo Shan peak and Shenzen are aplenty along the trail as well as lots of panoramic viewpoints.

The total elevation gain to reach the summit is 651m and the hike is roughly 2 hours with few stops. At the summit, one could chose to continue the hike all the way to Fanling which may take another 2 hours of gentle decline. As the second half of the hike to Fanling MTR station is not very scenic, and full of never-ending and monotonous descend, we walked back to Kadoorie Farm’s end for our own convenient instead.

The climb is a part of the 14 Peaks in 14 Weeks event started in Jan 18. We were inspired by the movie “14 Peaks” in Netflix and thought that perhaps we could do the same here in Hong Kong. So in the coming 14 weeks, we will gather some of our friends and colleagues from the aviation industry in an attempt to do something different. We has been through so many challenges in the last 2 years and we are hoping this would inspire some positivity in our current situation and to show we can come out stronger than before.