Sabah Trip : mountain climbing 2

Day 3.


lucky for us. the rain stopped at 2am.



group photo in the resthouse. but my uncle superman wasn't there.



because he was still dreaming.


we continued our journey at around 2.40am. a head torch is essential because you can't see anything out there and the route is slippery.



after 3 hours of climbing, we had reached around 500m away from the summit [Low's peak]. we knew we can't make it to the peak because we were rushing for another activity. so we missed the sunrise but my uncle said the view over there is nicer than the peak.





the weather up there was so cold and my body keep trembling even though i wore 2 pair of gloves. since we couldn't make it to the summit, we were taking photos and having fun while wait for the others.

the sunrise we had missed.

we went back to the 7 km point and go for the world's highest and Asia's 1st via ferrata.












normally the intermediate route would take 3 hours to Laban Rata but we spend around 6 hours because of raining and the 1st team was very slow [we were the 2nd team] and i fell asleep many times while wait for the 1st team. anyway guys you should try this if you have the chance. and there are a few more highlights i didn't capture like walking on a string. you guys can check out the video below.



then we took another trail and spend 3 hours to go down from Laban Rata. i found that trail is much more harder than the Mesilau trail. wonder why Mesilau trail is not recommended for the first timer. and my uncle told me the record of Mount Kinabalu climbing [up and down] is just 2 and half hours. chi sin. i believe that guy must be installed turbo engine on his body.


that's it the mountain climbing part. my Sabah trip hasn't end. so stay tuned.

Sabah trip : mountain climbing

Day 2.


woke up at around 4am. departed at around 6am from KK town and took 2 hours to reach mt. Kinabalu.



nice view while on the way to mt. Kinabalu.



here is the place for registration and also the starting point.





well, that wasn't the starting point for us. since we're going to take the Mesilau trail, the 2 km longer and harder trail, we need to go to Kundasang, 45 minutes away from there.




here is the starting point for us at Mesilau Resort.




everybody had his own lunch box. we knew it's too early to have lunch but we couldn't stand for the starvation.





here we go.








cute squirrel.

















nice scenery.




see what my sampat uncle did.










the scenic route we go through.


after 6 hours of climbing, finally we reached Laban Rata, the place we we gonna stay.





the weather was so cold. my fingers almost frozen and i could barely move it. i keep drinking hot coffee but not much help.



sunset.


all of us sleep very early that night 'cause we don't have no much time to rest and we had to continue our climbing at 2am on the next day...


to be continued.