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Descending Mount Kinabalu

Daily Photo – Descending Mount Kinabalu

Today’s photo shows a fellow trekker descending Mount Kinabalu on a section of the trail above Laban Rata. It’s the last photo I took on the Mountain. By now the sun was pretty high in the sky removing any character from the views over the Crocker Range.

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The small yellow structure on the vertical center line of this image is the Laban Rata resthouse from where I'd set off some four to five hours earlier.

Daily Photo – Looking Down on Laban Rata

Having posted some photos a few days back looking up towards the summit of Mount Kinabalu from the resthouse at Laban Rata, today’s photo is the reverse…

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The rising sun chases the night away from the summit of Mount Kinabalu.

Daily Photo – South from the Summit of Mount Kinabalu

As the sun rose into the morning sky, I took this shot in a southerly direction from the summit of Mount Kinabalu.

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The sun has slipped below the horizon of the South China Sea in this photo taken in 1989 from Laban Rata on Mount Kinabalu. On the right you can make out the island of Pulau Gaya and the three smaller islands of Pulau Manukan just to the south (left). On the shoreline lies the town of Kota Kinabalu invisible in the haze. The coast is some 40 miles (60 km) distant from my shooting location.

Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset 4

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.

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This is the Laban Rata Rest House on Mount Kinabalu in 1989.

Daily Photo – Laban Rata Resthouse

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.

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