The Big Climb. We took a flight out to Sabah on Thursday, stayed in Poring Hot Springs, and then moved to Kinabulu National Park on Friday. The trek began on Saturday at about 2000m. We covered 6km in the first day up to Laman Rata, and stayed overnight. Arising at 2am on the Sunday morning, we were the last to leave Laman Rata at 3am behind a big queue of tourists. Our guide, Marius, followed. Annoyingly, I was struck by a weakness from a stomach bug that still seems to affect me now. Sharing 1 backpack between Raw and myself, Raw took over the load after 5 minutes, and we steadily climbed overtaking a lot of people on the way up. A 2.7km trek gaining over 1000m was covered in under 3 hours. The summit was extremely cold because of the windchill. A quick hot drink from the Thermos, and we descended the full 8.7km. Legs now shot to pieces.


















- posted by Daniel @ Tuesday, June 22, 2004