Malaysia, Sabah - Climbing Mount Kinabalu
Note from the Author : Unlike my other older travel articles on my visits to cities, Mount Kinabalu has probably not changed much over the years. Thus, what I experienced on my trek up this mountain in Dec 2000, is also likely to be what anyone who is ascending the summit today will experience. - Timothy, Sep 2014 My first encounters with moutains were in Nepal in 1998 while I was trekking around the Annapurna region of the Himalayas. I also clocked my first peaks there and the highest of these peaks were at altitudes of 3600 to 3800 meters (11811 to 12467 ft). More than two years later on Christmas Eve of December 2000, I was at the foot of Mount Kinabalu in the Malaysian state of Sabah. At an altitude of some 4095.2 meters (13436 ft) above sea level, Mount Kinabalu is the higest peak between the Himalayas and Indonesia's New Guinea. Despite this, Mount Kinabalu is considered one of the most accessible peaks in the world and anybody with a reasonable level of fitness shoul...