Hong Kong explorer
Rebecca Lee Lok-sze (, born 1944) is a Hong Kong explorer. She is the first Hongkonger and the first woman to have visited the North Pole, the South Pole, and Mount Everest. Lee has also visited the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon (the deepest canyon in China) and the Taklamakan (the hottest desert in China).
Life and work.
Lee has worked as a professional graphic designer, painter, photographer, and writer. In 1985, she joined the Chinese National Antarctic Expedition and first set foot on Antarctica. Over the following 30 years Lee has made significant contributions toward polar exploration and educating people about environmental impacts. In 1997, she founded the Polar Museum Foundation. Lee has donated a collection of artifacts from her polar expeditions to the Museum of Climate Change at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2012, she collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra on a performance of the "Sinfonia antartica" by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Lee is currently the honorary adviser of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Chai Wan), science adviser of the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department and vice chairman of the Scout Association of Hong Kong Programme Committee.
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