MT Kinabalu

We walked from 9am to 5pm to walk the 9km - bloody steep + slow group.

Walk thru trees - not much to see until we popped out from the trees late in the day and the sun came out.

We stayed at 3300m on the 1st night and got up at 2am to stand in a superslow queue for 1hr +. I should have slept in till after 3.30am and then had a good walk/climb for 2hrs to the summit.
Seven of our 13 person group got to the top of Mt Kinabala (4100m) over 2 days with 19 hours on the trails.

Karen got as far as the last checkpoint and called it a day. It wasnt too hard from this point on until the final 100m climb that was a scramble. I was 1st of our group to the top and was blown away with the granite, lava-like formations as it came light.
It was a long walk down and our knees were very sore by the end. Next day the legs seized up esp the calves. Sore for a couple of days, but no big drama.