But that was all ahead of me. Here I was admiring the view myself and trying not to think about climbing down that massive staircase I'd climbed up less than 24 hours prior.
Clearly up here on the exposed granodiorite at the summit of Mount Kinabalu, a grey windbreaker definitely falls into the what not to wear category!
Below I've posted another photo of Mount Kinabalu's Shadow. Taken a short while after the one I posted a few days ago...
As the sun rose into the morning sky, I took this shot in a southerly direction from the summit of Mount Kinabalu.
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.