Perhaps the world’s most extreme game of mahjong was played on the heights of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The players, Pauline Heng, Tony Liu, Ling Khor and Jak Heng, climbed the 134 metres before taking part in this ‘sport’ and all its strategies. The game aimed to promote both the World Series of Mahjong and the BridgeClimb’s ‘Mandarin Climb’, which features local Mandarin-speaking guides for the first time, launched earlier this year. Mahjong tournament organiser Pauline Heng thought the setting was apt for the ancient game. “The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a powerful symbol of Australia,” she said. “Similarly, mahjong is...

Sunny Gajjar loves photography and motorcycling so much he will be spending two months riding 23,000km of Australia’s most picturesque roads happily snapping away. The 32-year-old from New Delhi, India, has ridden around Australia before and estimates that he has clocked up close to 350,000km in 15 other countries pandering to his two great loves. In 2007  the self-proclaimed 'MotoGrapher' rode 22,000km around Australia with another rider from India, but this time around he is solo on his trusty 1200cc Ducati Multistrada, after commencing his journey in Sydney on April 22. Sunny is enamoured by the photographic opportunities and solitude that...

If anyone could predict snow, that fickle thing, they’d make a million dollars. All sorts of weather indicators for snow exist (‘it is raining and 13 degrees in Adelaide’ is a popular one), but for something more scientific, Pete ‘The Frog’ Taylor of snowatch.com.au has long been the Oracle for long-range snow forecasts for keen powder hounds. He says ocean temperatures around Australia have been warmer than average this year, which could result in increased regional rainfall. That’s not good news for establishing a snow base pre-season – but never fear, there will be falls. “Warm nights during May could...