This was a plan that came later than sooner. I had already paid my booking fee to a friend last year when the earthquake struck and all bookings had to be canceled or postponed. Mount Kinabalu was immediately closed and those 3 months that it was not available for climbing suddenly felt like forever. But then, the eagerness of coming back to Mount Kinabalu kinda intensified when I was told that the route had to be altered from the original…
The Salt Trail – I grew up listening to my mother talking about it. Her story of how she as a child had to tag along behind her parents and a group of others to walk for days from her remote village in the far corner of Tambunan all the way to Tamparuli on the West coast of Sabah just to buy salt. It never failed to fascinate me every time. She told me how she would usually be assigned…
I have never been emotionally involved in a tragedy ever before – more than I was when the earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck a big part of Sabah – which I thought was not serious at first – until the news of casualties at Mount Kinabalu reached me. The final number of those killed – 18 – came to me as a shock; in fact, it devastated me more than I had thought it would. Mount Kinabalu is…