April 1978
My second and last climb. The first climb was in 1976.
Mt Kinabalu (4095m) - the tallest mountain in South-East Asia
While most climbers take two days to ascend and descend Mt Kinabalu, we made the trip in one day because we have previous experience of climbing (except Rony, yellow shirt in above photo). After all, the whole distance is only eight-kilometer climb.
Our team is 2 Japanese men, 1 German lady and 2 Malaysian (Rony and me) and a mountain guide.
Rony and I started in late afternoon from the Park Headquarter and the other 3 and guide started later but catch up with us on the way up at night.
We reach the summit in time to watch sunrise.
Today (2011), at this age, I would not be able to make another trip in only 1 day.
The German lady (left in above photo) is a school teacher in Mat Salleh Secondary School of Ranau. She love Sabah's nature and local people. She told several friends that after retirement in the future she would come to live in Sabah. True enough, In 2000s, a friends told me she did came back to Malaysia and made Sabah her 2nd home.
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