Kota Kinabalu and Mt. Kinabalu trip!

One productive thing that i have done during my inter-semester break was climbing Mt. Kinabalu 4000 M above sea level! it was a gruesome climb but the scenery at the peak was worth the climb!

Broga Hill

Some of my friends advised me on the training that i need to go months before i climb Mt. Kinabalu. but I have got no time to train like climbing up the staircase for 4 hours instead i played basketball in STM. The Saturday when i start my semester break, i went with some of my friends to climb Bukit Broga, somewhere in Semenyih! it is a 400M climb! at least i get a taste of climbing! not sure am i ready after the climb to the top of Bukit Broga!

When i reached KK... time to relax.. get my supplies and play around taking pictures with the sunset! still do not know what was installed for us when climbing Mt. KK

All packed up and ready to go!! they said that we should carry as less weight as possible!

my bag was the heaviest, 10KGs!!

Group picture at Fei's house in KK in the morning before departing to Kinabalu Park!!

Arrived at outside Kinabalu Park! after 2 hours of travel!!

Timpohon gate!! ready to go after getting our walking sticks!

Group Picture at Timpohon Gate! all full of energy!!

all the stairs.... all the way up!! :)

Still have energy??

Don't give up! climb climb!

At last i reached 3.5km of walk/climb!!

At 4km, just halfway there......

Met a friend.. she was on the way down when i was on the way up!

The higher I go! the stairs become stones!! look at the mist! believe me! its cold!

The higher we went there were no more trees but bushes!

Pendant Hut.... the place where I stayed for the evening before climbing to the peak!

At last reached Laban Rata!!! it was raining at the last 200m to laban rata.... i was all wet when i reached! i started the climb at 9am and reached laban rata at 2:45pm!!

My lunch!! tom yam taste extremely good when i was there! lolz

Training for via Feratta!! with all the ropes and all.....

My personal massager! haha.......

Taken after dinner!!!

Actually i am pointing at the place we are staying for the night... but too blur because of the mist!

I wanted to take some sunset pictures but it was raining :( so i climbed back up to the Pendant Hut and slept! i think it was about 5:30pm, cause have to wake up at 2am to climb to the peak! the night was extremely cold! din get to properly use the sleeping bag.... i did sleep for a bit but the rest of my friends couldn't sleep cause its either too cold or too early to sleep! and it was noisy outside the room with people talking and walking!!

Woke up at around 1:30am get ready to climb to the peak!! it was so dark outside i couldn't take any picture! the climb was adventurous especially near to the sayat sayat check point! have to climb with rope! couldn't see how high it was at night until when we go down the same way in the morning!! believe me... i am surprised how high it was!!

Sunrise... i nearly reached the peak!!

Taken from the peak!! i am above the clouds!! haha....

Thats the peak.... i was on the way down!!

CC and I... above the clouds!

Group picture before Via Feratta!! all tied up together!!

Trust the rope!! it was actually vertical the camera angle make it like flat!

do not look down now!

I have to cross the 2 wires up and down!!

When it was finished... my feet is killing me!! i wore the wrong shoe for the via feratta!! went back to Pendant Hut all were so tired and exhausted we started our journey down at 1.30pm... i was one of the last one to reached Timpohon Gate!! i couldn't believe that there were so many stairs that i climbed up! and after every turn... more stairs...and stairs!! my team and I were cursing stairs and escalators that were not functioning when we went walking around KK..... all of us who climbed have leg muscle ache for at least a week after Mt. Kinabalu trip!!

Tuesday, 8 June 2010