Blogs from Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Asia - page 11

Here's a piccie of the ring Steve presented Orla with at the summit of Mount Kinabalu. How could she resist??!... read more

Tue 9th Apprehensively I met the others for breakfast at 8am. I found out that 2 had dropped out of the climb and so it was now just Dee and I doing the summit trail. The others all got in the buss and off they went to do the 8km Mesilau trail. So with Dee as my private guide we set off. She gave me 2 invaluble peices of advice. Go really slow- even on the flat bits and take really small steps. As most of it is large stairs it ment finding boulders to use as half way steps. It was 6km to the overnight rest house and 1382mt climb ending at 3272mts above sea level. There were 8 rest huts along the way and I only sat down to rest at these. I was ... read more

Mat: Mount Kinabalu is Sabah's biggest draw card. Its tall, its climbable, there are fantastic views, lots of people give it a crack. We did. Standing at 4095m it is a good head taller than Mt Cook in NZ (3764m). Being in the tropics however means that any punter with an urge to walk straight up and straight down in two days can have a go. I don't really know what proportion of people actually get to the top, but someone mentioned it was only 50/50. You have to hire a guide in case it turns nasty, but compared with something like Mt Cook, Mt Kinabalu is just a big goofy labrador. At the summit the coldest it normally gets is 0 degrees. Sooo, we stayed at park headquarters on the night of the 3rd of ... read more

So the trip starts once again. After landing in back in Borneo I decided not to rough it and checked into the Hyatt to have a relaxing day or two before attemting this 4100m mountain. Room service of steak and chips helped me settle back into the Malay way of life. I was severley jet lagged but had no choice to climb it two days after my arrival since the mountain accomoation was fully booked until the end of October. I left KK at 7am on Monday for the mountain. I hooked up with an English mountaineer to do the climb with and share the cost of the guide. The first day climb was the hardest and we managed to do it in about 3 and a half hours. Not bad as the average is 5 ... read more

Mt Kinabalu Mt Kinabalu, at 4200m, is the highest mountain in South East Asia, hugely spectacular, and a bloody hard climb. 5 July 2006 I was picked up at the ungodly hour of 0630 (I get up late in cities) in Kota Kinabalu for the two hour ride up to 1800m where we would begin the climb. Climbing with me was Vong, a Scot of Chinese descent, and a Malaysian-Singaporean couple who weren’t destined to make it to the top. We stopped to get registered at the ranger HQ and hotel where I devoured a cheese cake and most of the biggest mountain of fake cream I have seen in my life. I felt a bit nauseous but was glad of the sugar ahead of the supposedly three hour climb to our mountain lodgings at 3200m. ... read more