Dear Mt. Kinabalu,
You may be the highest peak in South East Asia and maybe you’re used to hearing people say how beautiful you are, and how your views are stunning – but sometimes you need to hear from the people who you beat down, whose will power you took so easily, as though it were a muffin from a buffet table.
I’m sure on a normal day, hiking the 6km (as the crow flies) up to the lodge would be doable, and beautiful. It would be a day filled with clouds, giant trees, sunshine and sweaty people.
But, this was not a normal day – today you decided to pour out rain as though this were a rainforest plagued with a drought and you had one day to fix the problem.
Today was the day you made me question my faith in dry bags and anything sold as “water proof”.
Today was a day that would have had weathermen named “Storm” out in giant yellow ponchos to report on the extraordinary amount of rain and interview the 105 climbers on whether (ha) the rain was a factor in them being cold: “do you think you would be this cold if it werent raining nonstop for five hours?”
And then say, “now, back to the studio, where it’s dry as a hay stack in summer.”
Continue reading (Incl. Pics) at: BeyondTheOffice: A Message to Mt Kinabalu, Regarding a Truly Terrible Hike
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