My first summit attempt - Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah

Sabah, a beautiful state consists by numbers of islands in South China Ocean, the marvelous mountain Kinabalu situated at the middle of the peaceful mainland of Sabah, it is so respectful that cherish several of legends for those inhabitant.

This August, My friends and I were there for a special hike on the Low's peak of the Mountain Kinabalu. It is 4095.2 meter above sea-level. It really was a challenge for us because we have never been on any land in that height and freezing temp, even we have had been started training to strengthen our body from a year before, but still we ere exhausted after the hike.

We took 2 days for the trail attempt, the first day climb from mountain HQ at 1800 m to base camp at 3200m, and then stayed in the base camp overnight. The second morning climbed the rest of 1000m at 3 a.m, we finally reached the Low’s peak (The highest peak of the mountain) at 7 a.m., and descend to mountain HQ at the rest of second day.

It was luck for us because we have awesome weather during the hike. Although some team members had suffered symptoms of AMS “High attitude sickness”. But we finally made it at the time the sunshine started to warm the land.

I felt very excited because of the achievement of ambitious goal, the target makes us stay very focus even how hard it would be. I think the summit attempt is similar to toastmaster, where people could follow road map travel from the starting point to the peak (likewise awards of the program).

I am posting some pictures here to share my happiness to you. I wish you enjoy it.

Never give up guys.
Thomas