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Sunset at Waras Hut, Km 6 on the trail up Mount Kinabalu

Waras Hut was my accommodation for the night on the trail up Mount Kinabalu, before attempting the summit. I reached Low's Peak at 5.45am the next morning.


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Blog: Mount Kinabalu's cripples
Date: March 15th 2007

The highlights of a trip to Sabah include the diving at Pulau Sipadan, the Orang-Utangs at Sepiloc and climbing Mount Kinabalu. Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain between the Himalayas and Papua Burat (New Guinea Island). It's a very steep climb from 1,800m to 4,100m through 3 different ecological zones. The park surrounding this massive granite rock is a world heritage site with one of th ... read more


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Tot: 0.113s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 10; qc: 25; dbt: 0.0395s; 1; s:apollo w:www (50.28.60.10); sld: 1; ; mem: 6.4mb