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	Mount Kinabalu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mount Kinabalu (Malay: Gunung Kinabalu) is a prominent mountain in South East Asia.
		It is located in Kinabalu State Park on the Malaysian island of Borneo.
		The main peak of the mountain can be climbed by a person with a good physical condition, and requires no mountaineering equipment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Kinabalu (486 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Climbing Mount Kinabalu
		Mount Kinabalu is two hours' drive from Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, one of the two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo.
		Mount Kinabalu is considered to be the highest mountain in South East Asia, although there are higher mountains in Indonesia, on the island of Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea).
		The first is that Kinabalu stands for 'Chinese widow' with Kina being a corruption of China and Balu being a commonly-used term for widow in the local languages.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A856433 (1549 words)

	Mount Kinabalu - Wikitravel
		Mount Kinabalu is located in Kinabalu Park in the Malaysian state of Sabah, some 80km east of Kota Kinabalu.
		Mount Kinabalu is known to be one of the most accessible in the world.
		Kinabalu Park is home to a diverse array of flora and fauna that changes in nature as your altitude increases.
	wikitravel.org /en/Mount_Kinabalu (1489 words)

	NEI (UK)'s Mount Kinabalu.....
		At almost 14,000 feet, Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain in South East Asia and the only mountain of this height anywhere in the world, which never has snow on its summit.
		Though the peaks of Mount Kinabalu may be unwelcoming, the foothills are not and there is even a world class golf course here at the Mount Kinabalu Golf and Country Club.
		Mount Kinabalu and Kinabalu Park are approximately an hour and a half drive from Sabah's capital city of Kota Kinabalu and are easily accessible for a day trip, which we will be happy to arrange for you if it is not already included in your selected tour.
	www.neiuk.co.uk /mtkinab.html (212 words)

	Mount Kinabalu (Borneo)
		Located in the Malaysian state of Sabah, formerly North Borneo when it was a Dutch possession, Kinabalu is the highest mountain in all of Southeast Asia and easily one of the most striking with its fantastic granite turrets and spires.
		The summit plateau of Kinabalu is one of the most bizarre mountain tops I have seen and a prime reason why we particularly wanted to climb it.
		Kinabalu is very popular, with heavier traffic than Mt. Whitney, so if one is to stay in the Laban Rata Resthouse or in the chalets at Park Headquarters before the climb, reservations are advisable.
	angeles.sierraclub.org /sps/archives/sps00141.htm (1010 words)

	Malaysia / National Parks
		With its peak at 4,101 meters (and growing), Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain in South-East Asia.
		Though the Kinabalu Park is famous largely for the climb, the climb is in turn as famous for the beauty of its route as for the view from the top.
		Kinabalu's slopes possess a wealth of plant growth and a large variety of birds, and much of the climb's interest and beauty lies in tracing the transitions from one ecosystem to the next as one reaches ever higher altitude.
	www.geographia.com /malaysia/kinabalu.html (548 words)

	Mount Kinabalu: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The mountain is contained within a state (formerly national) park, and features a large variety of flora, including wild pitcher plant (pitcher plant: Any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales) s and orchid (orchid: Any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors) s.
		Mount Kinabalu is most easily reached from Kota Kinabalu (Kota Kinabalu: kota kinabalu (216400 [estimated population 2002], global rank # 1510), formerly jesselton,...
		Huts within Kinabalu State Park (Kinabalu State Park: kinabalu state park, otherwise known as taman kinabalu in malay, is a national...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/mount_kinabalu (941 words)

	Awesome Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo)
		Mount Kinabalu is not as high as Mount Everest, or as dramatic as snow-capped Mount Fuji, or as treacherous as China's Gongga Shan.
		Kinabalu has nine species of pitcher plants, including the world's largest, the Rajah Brooke — named after James Brooke, who became rajah of Sarawak in 1842 — which can hold two liters of water in a single pitcher.
		Kinabalu climbers were to remain scarce for decades to come.
	www.drmartinwilliams.com /mtkinabalu/mtkinabalu.html (1566 words)

	Mount Kinabalu Free Information
		Mount Kinabalu standing at 13,400 feet is the highest mountain in South East Asia.
		The graphic silhouette of Mount Kinabalu is adopted as the emblem of the state flag of Sabah, since 1963.
		Mount Kinabalu is not an easy feat as what some had claimed.
	www.mount-kinabalu.com /freeinfo.html (354 words)

	Mount Kinabalu - revered abode of the dead
		The dramatic 4101 metre peak of Mount Kinabalu rises from the lowlands of Borneo.
		At 4101 metres Mount Kinabalu is the highest peak in Southeast Asia (excluding New Guinea), and one of the youngest, having been formed in the last few million years.
		Now that Mount Kinabalu's biological diversity is so well recognised perhaps this famed peak should be changed from 'Revered Abode of the Dead' to 'Revered Abode of the Living'.
	www.ecologyasia.com /html-loc/mount-kinabalu.htm (1365 words)

	Climbing Mount Kinabalu : Asia Forum - Travellerspoint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When you get down from the mount, don't forget to take a stroll at Kinabalu Park...i don't think the world's biggest flower is easy to be tracked during this rainy season...October would be nice then...
		I notice that you are gounig for Mount Kinabalu Climb in Sept with your friends.
		The cheapest rate per person in a hostel in Kinabalu Park HQ (foot of Mount Kinabalu) is RM46.
	www.travellerspoint.com /forum.cfm?thread=9763 (1146 words)

	Destination: Borneo's Mount Kinabalu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yes, the mountain in Kinabalu National Park, on the Malaysian part of the island, is accessible and easy for some fit travelers to conquer.
		According to local lore, Kinabalu is where the spirits of the dead go when they leave the body.
		Botanists have identified at least 1,000 species of the orchid family on Kinabalu, along with unusual rhododendrons, rare pitcher plants and giant red blossoms of rafflesia.
	www.cnn.com /TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9704/borneo.kinabalu (434 words)

	Mount Kinabalu (Malaysia)
		Advance bookings are recommended for lodgings and huts at Kinabalu Park, home of 13,451' Mt. Kinabalu.
		Kinabalu is South-East Asia's tallest mountain, the highest point between Northern Burma and New Guinea.
		The massif is a youngster as mountains go, born just 1-1/2 million years ago, when a mass of granitic rock that had been cooling and hardening under the surface for several million years began to rise and break through the overlying crusts of softer rocks.
	angeles.sierraclub.org /sps/archives/sps00059.htm (1096 words)

	Mount Kinabalu (Part I) :: South East Asia :: March -- June '95
		Mount Kinabalu is, at 4,101 meters and rising (at a rate of 5mm annually), the highest peak in SE Asia (Thailand to Guam).
		But Kinabalu has no glacier -- ice forms infrequently even at the peak, the brochures don't say anything about snow -- and you can hike up it in running shoes and a warm jacket at any time of year.
		Kinabalu is by far the tallest peak in the region and what once seemed mountains from below are now diminutive hills channeling the streamers of thick white mist that run between them.
	www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejournal/mtkinab1.htm (1647 words)

	Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
		Although the lowland rainforests have the highest species diversity, vegetation zones at higher elevations have a larger number of endemic species found nowhere else in the world.
		Lowland forest reaching 30-50 m high covers about 35% of Kinabalu Park up to to 1,200 m.
		The world's highest ant diversity is in Poring, Kinabalu National Park.
	www.lonker.net /travel_borneo_1.htm (782 words)

	danchan - Backpacking Malaysian Borneo - Climbing Mount Kinabalu
		kuching bako niah iban mount kinabalu sepilok kota kinabalu
		Mount Kinabalu is the tallest trekable mountain in South East Asia.
		The base of Mount Kinabalu National Park is 1600 meters above sea-level.
	www.danchan.com /feature/2001/borneo/mountkinabalu (815 words)

	Kew Scientist - October 1998 Issue 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The third part of John and Reed Beaman's The Plants of Mount Kinabalu, covering the gymnosperms and non-orchid monocotyledons, was published in July 1998 to coincide with the Flora Malesiana conference in Kuala Lumpur.
		Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, East Malaysia, is Borneo's highest peak and the highest mountain between the Himalayas and the snowy ranges of New Guinea.
		Computer reconstruction of Mount Kinabalu viewed from the southwest created by draping Bands 5, 2 and 1 from a 1991 Landsat image over a digital elevation model (elevations are x1.5).
	www.rbg.kew.org.uk /kewscientist/Oct1998/pages/ksOc98.htm (486 words)

	World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List
		Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John "the Theologian" and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos (1999)
		The Committee decided to extend the existing cultural property, the Temple of Ggantija, to include the five prehistoric temples situated on the islands of Malta and Gozo and to rename the property as "The Megalithic Temples of Malta".
		The Westland and Mount Cook National Park and the Fiordland National Park, which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand.
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1012 (2603 words)

	Mount Kinabalu
		Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain in all Southeast Asia (4,101 m).
		It is only a 2-hour drive from Sabah's capital of Kota Kinabalu.
		There were several fees to be paid upon arriving - a Park Entry fee, a Mountain Climbing Permit, accommodation charge, a bus ticket to the trail head, a fee for the guide.
	www.malaysiasite.nl /mountkinabalueng.htm (686 words)

	Mount Kinabalu area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mount Kinabalu overlooks the city of Kota Kinabalu.
		At the base of Mount Kinabalu there is a garden with many native plants from the area.
		The near-shore reefs were still recovering from being heavily silted by a freak typhoon in December.
	www.underwater.org /mermaid/borneo/kk/kk.html (101 words)

	Borneo - Mount Kinabalu
		Highly recommended on a trip to the area is to visit Mt. Kinabalu on Borneo.
		Kinabalu - View of the mountain before setting off early in the morning from the park headquarters.
		Bring warm clothes, but the climb is wetter than it is cold, so you will not necessarily freeze to death.
	janhoo.com /malaysia2.html (399 words)

	Malaysia Sabah Mount Kinabalu Photo Gallery - 114 high quality pictures of Mount Kinabalu, pictures, Mount Kinabalu ...
		Mt Kinabalu, which lies in Sabah in northern Borneo, is at 4100 m the highest peak between the Himalayas and Papua New Guinea.
		It's important not to arrive to early on the summit, to avoid freezing in the cold night waiting for the sunrise.
		Adapting to the height is not really an issue, because Mt. Kinabalu is not that high (only 4100m - compare that to the Kilimanjaro, which is almost 6000m high) and because the whole climb lasts about 24 hours.
	www.molon.de /galleries/Malaysia/Sabah/Kinabalu (337 words)

	Mount Kinabalu Climbing Tips : Mount-Kinabalu.com
		There are a lot of mountains higher and more treacherous than Mount Kinabalu: Kilimanjaro in East Africa, standing at 5,895m; Nepal mountains called Himalayan Peaks are at least 5,500m in heights; and the highest Mount Everest at 8,848m.
		Try Mount Kinabalu first and you will have a good feel of how it is like to climb higher ones.
		The saying goes,"if you have not seen Mount Kinabalu, you have not seen South East Asia yet." The summit of Mount Kinabalu is the most beautiful and heavenly sight of South East Asia.
	www.mount-kinabalu.com (2949 words)

	Mount Kinabalu - A guide to climbing Mount Kinabalu - Kinabalu National Park, Sabah
		Mount Kinabalu stands at 4095m and dominates this part of Malaysian Borneo.
		It is focal point of the Mount Kinabalu National Park, Malaysia's first World Heritage site.
		Kinabalu National park is one of the richest assemblages of biological diversity and natural landscapes in tropical South east Asia.
	www.solotravel.org /kinabalu/kinabalu-mountain-guide.htm (104 words)

	Kinabalu, Mount on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		KINABALU, MOUNT [Kinabalu, Mount], peak, 13,455 ft (4,101 m) high, N Sabah, Malaysia, NE of Kota Kinabalu; highest peak on Borneo.
		Disabled 62 on trek to conquer Mount Kinabalu
		Team to fly longest national flag on Mount Kinabalu
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kinabalu.asp (88 words)

	New Straits Times: Conqueror of Mount Kinabalu@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NORAH Gilingan, a Mount Kinabalu porter, probably holds the record for the most climbs up the mountain.
		IF someone boasts about having conquered Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia's highest peak, many times, better be sure that Norah Gilingan is not listening.
		The truth is, the petite and shy woman has been up and down that mountain for almost 20 years as a porter, so much so that she has lost count of her numerous...
	highbeam.com /doc/1P1:95797867/Conqueror+of+Mount+Kinabalu.html?... (175 words)

	Mount Kinabalu
		THE EXPLORATION OF MOUNT KINA BALU, NORTH BORNEO.
		Mist of the Mount Kinabalu : An article from: PSA Journal
		Mount Kinabalu: Borneo's magic mountain : an introduction to the natural history of one of the world's great natural monuments
	www.veryhappening.com /things/mount_kinabalu (76 words)

	blog.mount-kinabalu-borneo.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mount Kinabalu Borneo.com now brings you Mount Kinabalu climbing photo Gallery for you to upload your climbing photo to our website and everybody could see it.
		First, I would like to give almost all the relevant information, tips and guidelines for mountain climbers who want to conquer Mount Kinabalu, as there are very limited information about THE CLIMB in the net.
		If you are like me, (a passionate Mount Kinabalu climber and/or an open source community supporter), I really hope that you could benefit from what I am doing.
	www.blog.mount-kinabalu-borneo.com (1361 words)

	Day One - Climbing Mount Kinabalu
		These are the endless steps of Mount Kinabalu.
		Situated at over 3200 metres above sea level Laban Rata is one of the main Mount Kinabalu huts where people will sleep until 2am in the morning before starting the final ascent of Mount Kinabalu.
		Looking up at the peaks of Mount Kinabalu from the balcony of Laban Rata hut.
	www.solotravel.org /kinabalu/climb-mount-kinabalu-day-one.htm (545 words)

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