Daily Photo – Looking Down on Laban Rata

Daily Photo – Looking Down on Laban Rata
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Having posted some photos a few days back looking up towards the summit of Mount Kinabalu from the resthouse at Laban Rata, today's photo is the reverse...

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Daily Photo – The Climb to Laban Rata

Daily Photo – The Climb to Laban Rata
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Laban Rata is pretty much at the altitude where the vegetation peters out and the base granite starts. The trek there is through the jungle/rainforest so it can be pretty warm and humid. Most of the climb that I recall was this seemingly endless zigzag of stairs cut into the side of the hill and shored up with wood or stone, without which the entire climb would be a muddy scramble.

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