Climbing Mount Kinabalu
Dali would have loved the summit of Mount Kinabalu, the highest peak between the Himalayas and New Guinea. Granite towers, horns and cowslicks protrude improbably...
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Ulp. It's an Alp.
When a mountain makes it onto the state flag, you know it’s a big old mountain. And Mount Kinabalu, which stands over 4000m above Sabah...
Of Canopies and Caves
This is the view down over the lower storey of the rainforest canopy, in Mulu National Park, Sarawak, from the longest canopy skywalk in the...
From Hunter-Gatherers to Human Zoo
Leaving Mulu National Park on a little propeller plane, with rivers unspieling below us, a scattered handful of logging tracks carving their way across the...
Three Million Bats
Deer Cave, at Mulu National Park, Borneo, is one of the largest cave chambers in the world, and home to as many as three million...
So Long and Thanks to (All) the Fish
Yesterday was a rite of passage for the nine year old. And one that I can, with hand on heart, say that I am glad...
Fighting Cocks and Jungle Ferns
We took three boats to Gunung Mulu, the serene and beautiful national park deep in the forests of Sarawak, with ancient caves carved deep into...
The Coolest Fairground Worker Ever?
Of all the places in which to find a “UK Funfair”, complete with British registration plates on the lorries, Bintulu, Sarawak, would come pretty low...
The Big Race
Watching two women’s eights, one women’s sixteen, and a mighty war canoe paddled by thirty-two men powering their way up the Balui River in the...
The Vanishing Forest
Some things, simply, look too big, too plentiful to ever be used up. The herds of bison that clouded the American plains; the trees of...