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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.
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.