My name is Hai. For the past few years, the ocean has been my home. I steer a 10 m sailboat across the seas. thousands of hours, tens of thousands of kilometers, without an engine, without Wi-Fi, sometimes even without GPS, without family, without fresh water to shower, without medical support, being hit by flying fish, sail into the eyes of hurricane, attacked by killer whales, and washed away by 7 m wave. I've lived with loneliness, sailed through dark night and looked to the stars for navigation. I've be ...

I want to start with a moment. It was the end of a 70our hike. My legs felt like rubber and my skin had become one with my socks.I haven't seen a single patch of dry trail all day. And my raincoat was just for show at this point. Everything I had was soaked with one of Beijing's most relentless rainstorms in recent history.It was a Duke of Edinburgh's hike. It's one of those things you sign up thinking that it's going to be a fun little hike um away from school, from homework. However, I didn't go in there ...