Contemplating on climbing Mount Kinabalu? Have already researched and, coming from a place of the world where mountains are still free and not subjected to the irrational claims of some arbitrary power, found the demands of Kinabalu National Park authorities extravagant, absurd and ludicrous? Not feeling rich or stupid enough to concede to such abusing claims, but … [Read more...]

With a great vividness infusing my body and a glorious joy animating my mood I got up that morning. My whole existence was permeated by that exalted feeling a man naturally experiences when just about to meet with a great mountain. The great mountain with which I was ready to rendezvous that day was the legendary Kinabalu mountain. Reaching an elevation of 4096m, Kinabalu is … [Read more...]

Upon landing at the airport of Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah state in northeastern Borneo, the pondering of one issue was monopolizing my head: how was I to climb the all-notorious Mount Kinabalu? The complication of conquering the summit of this majestic mountain does not lie in any actual, technical difficulties, rather in the arbitrary and ridiculous attitude of the … [Read more...]

Initially, I wasn't planning on visiting the Cameron Highlands, and that's not because I was underestimating that area's beauty - no, by any chance - but because I had in mind a far more extraordinary great adventure. I was planning on conquering the summit of the neighboring Mount Korbu, a wild mountain that receives almost no visitors. I had done quite some job the preceding … [Read more...]

Passing by Penang island, north Malaysia, I could not omit to pay a visit to the national park, situated at the northwestern edge of the island. The park's entrance is at Teluk Bahang village, which can be reached from Georgetown by the city bus in about an hour's trip and the ticket costs 4 rm (or cheaper if you are to get a ticket to some preceding stop,  upon which … [Read more...]