The National Park leaflets for Mount Kinabalu proudly describe it as "The highest mountain in South-East Asia", but then put in brackets " (not including Papua)". This is a sneaky and cheeky way to boost it's reputation. It's like saying "Madonna is the biggest selling female artist in the world (not including Mariah Carey)". Or, "I am the fastest runner in the world (not including Ben Johnson, Lynford Christie.. etc)" The reason for excluding Papua is that the three highest mountains are found here. So technically, Mount Kinabalu is the fourth highest, which is far less impressive. However, it does stand 4,101m tall, and I climbed.it. And let me tell you, it's no pushover. (I could have just written 4,100 metres for the height instead of 4,101m, but the last metre was the most difficult to
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