Monthly:March 2013
I think I left Laban Rata at 3:30 a.m. to head up to the summit of Mount Kinabalu. There was already a string of flashlights on the trail ahead of me and more behind me. I guess today the LED headlamp is de rigueur, and they certainly leaves your hands free but in 1989 they didn’t exist. I recall that when I was moving it was fine and when I stopped it was cold. I wasn’t well prepared for the […]
So here’s the last of the Mount Kinabalu sunset series. The sun has now slipped below the horizon, it’s passing marked by the display of yellow, orange and red in the sky.
Here’s the third in my series of four sunset images from Laban Rata, Mount Kinabalu, taken during my trek up the mountain in August 1989.
In the mid-ground you can clearly make out the coastline at Kota Kinabalu, some 37 miles (60 km) distant from Laban Rata on Mount Kinabalu.
In this shot, the sun hangs just above the horizon of the South China Sea. About a quarter of the way up the frame you can make out the coast at Kota Kinabalu which is 37 miles (60 km) distant from where I was on Mount Kinabalu at Laban Rata.
In the photo below a fellow traveler is capturing the sun setting into the South China Sea as we watched from the helipad at Laban Rata. The humidity hangs in the valleys in a purple haze. Just below the sun you can make out the coastline. It was strange for me to think that 48 hours previously I’d been at sea level in Miri, Sarawak and now here I was at 11,000 feet watching the sun descend.
