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4 unusual facts about Mount Kinabalu


Everest Vietnam

o 8 contestants have the first climbing course at Mount Kinabalu, second highest peak in Southeast Asia, for 7 days

Huang Senping

Huang Senping has been repeatedly cited as one of the main subjects in the legend of Mount Kinabalu.

Malaysia Federal Route 22

The section running from Tamparuli to Ranau, which is known as Tamparuli-Ranau Highway, runs across the Crocker Range which houses the Mount Kinabalu, offering scenic views to motorists.

Pittosporum resiniferum

The petroleum nut, Pittosporum resiniferum, is a tree that grows in the Philippines and Malaysia, particularly in the wilderness surrounding the Mayon Volcano and in the Cordillera of the Philippines and Mount Kinabalu of Sabah, Malaysia.


Kadamaian Falls

This cascading 700m (approx.) high Kadamaian Waterfall located on the southern flank of the Mount Kinabalu can be seen from the Tamparuli-Ranau road.

Nepenthes × kinabaluensis

The only accessible location from which this hybrid is known is the Kinabalu summit trail, between Layang-Layang and the helipad, where it grows at about 2900 m in a clearing dominated by Dacrydium gibbsiae and Leptospermum recurvum trees.

Nepenthes macrophylla

Whereas N. edwardsiana and N. villosa are restricted to generally ultramafic soils in the Kinabalu area, N. macrophylla is only found near the summit of Mount Trusmadi, which is mostly composed of sandstone.

Yishun Town Secondary School

Yishun Town students have gone to places includingd Lijiang (of Yunnan, China), Auckland, Perth, Sabah and Mount Kinabalu (both in east Malaysia).


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Nepenthes × kinabaluensis

Nepenthes × kinabaluensis can only be found on Mount Kinabalu (hence the name) and nearby Mount Tambuyukon, where the two parent species occur sympatrically.