Students from Kaohsuing’s I-Shou University Department of Mass Communication banded together to climb Dawu Mountain. With members from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia, they were led up the mountain by the founder of Pingtung’s mountaineering museum. They spent a year filming the process, making the documentary “Goat on the Cliff.” Because they had to carry lots of film equipment, these new mountaineers trained extra hard for the hike, climbing the mountain three times before finally making it to the peak and completing their graduation project.

Standing on the peak of Dawu Mountain at an altitude of 3,092 meters, these I-Shou University students challenged themselves to film a mountaineering documentary.

These students from the Department of Mass Communication climbed Dawu for their graduation project. Led by a professional mountaineer, they hiked carefully up the steep mountain road, carrying film equipment the entire way.

Hiking all day and into the night, they faced many challenges. One of them nearly gave up when he got altitude sickness.

Teng Shou-yan
Student from Hong Kong
I feel really uncomfortable and nauseous right now. I might not be able to make it to the top…

But the challenging process didn’t stop the determined group of students. As they had no previous hiking experience, they spent a year training so they could shoot their documentary.

Pao Cheng-i
Student from Malaysia
Since we were new to this, we had a lot to learn about hiking equipment, food and water. We spent almost NT$10,000 on all our equipment.

Chang Hung-chiang
Student from Taiwan
I’m not very sporty, so I had to force myself to take the stairs to class and go running every week.

Teng Shou-yan
Student from Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s tallest mountain is Tai Mo Mountain, but it’s only around 900 meters high. It’s incredible that Taiwan has so many mountains over 3,000 meters. I didn’t see views like this until coming to Taiwan and I really want to share it with my family.

This film crew from I-Shou University brought together students from Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Together they climbed Dawu Mountain, documenting their experienceto show more people the beauty of Taiwan’s mountains.

For more Taiwan news, tune in:
Sun to Fri at 9:30 pm on Channel 152
Tue to Sat at 1 am on Channel 53



#台灣新聞 #TaiwanNews #民視新聞 #FTV新聞 #Taiwan