With the sun continuing to descend in the west, I headed back to Laban Rata. Today's photo was a view south, over the top of the Park HQ and into Borneo.
On the trail above Laban Rata I took this image as the sun dipped lower in the sky. You might be able to make out part of the trail, climbing
The Laban Rata Resthouse was my destination for day one. As you can see from the shadows in the photo below, I got there early in the afternoon.
It was quite a relief to emerge from the trees and arrive at Laban Rata. The angle of the path reduced and the stairway gave way to a gravel path.
Mount Kinabalu is formed from granodiorite. This is an intrusive igneous rock, very similar to granite but with a different proportion of plagioclase and feldspar.
I took the photo below on my ascent to Laban Rata. Ascent, that is, as in climbing the stairs rather than something more skillful.