Borneo
When
March to August
Price
From 2 400€ excl. flights
(based on 2 people sharing)
How long
5 nights
Ideal length
Mount Kinabalu, rising over four thousand one hundred metres, is the highest peak between the Himalayas and New Guinea, a climb accessible without technical experience but physically demanding enough to be tackled over two days with a night at a high-altitude lodge. UNESCO-listed for its exceptional biodiversity, the surrounding park shelters over five thousand plant species across an altitudinal gradient that shifts from humid tropical jungle to sparse alpine vegetation within just a few kilometres.
The ascent of Mount Kinabalu, spread over two days with a night at a lodge above three thousand three hundred metres, requires no technical mountaineering experience but remains physically demanding on the final metres, where fixed ropes help climbers cross a smooth granite dome before reaching the summit of Low's Peak. The final stretch departs before dawn, by headlamp, to reach the summit in time for a sunrise that sets the surrounding granite formations ablaze.
Kinabalu Park, UNESCO-listed in 2000, concentrates over five thousand species of vascular plants on its slopes, including over seven hundred orchid species and several varieties of carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants found nowhere else on Earth. The climb crosses, in a single day, a humid tropical forest teeming with birds, a moss-covered mountain forest, then sparse alpine vegetation, a striking shortcut through several ecosystems normally separated by thousands of kilometres of latitude.
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A High-Altitude Lodge on Mount Kinabalu
A mountain lodge above three thousand three hundred metres, heated dormitories and hot meals served before the night departure for the summit.
A Lodge at the Foot of the National Park
A comfortable lodge at the foot of Kinabalu National Park, rooms overlooking the summit, a spa at the Poring hot springs to recover after the climb.
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