The rain is pouring down as we arrive in Kinabalu Park, the study area for the first leg of the expedition. About half of the expedition team made the journey to the park headquarters at 1,500 meters ...

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) A 23-year-old British backpacker who stripped naked and then urinated on a mountain held to be sacred by local villagers has been sentenced to three days imprisonment and ...

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 46, No. 4, Special Issue: LOSING THE HIGH GROUND: Rapid Transformation of Tropical Island Alpine and Subalpine Environments (November 2014), pp. 745-753 (9 ...

Information and photos of the latest climbing trip by Yuji Hirayama, Daniel Woods, James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini to Mt Kinabalu in Borneo, Malaysia Last week we provided information about the ...

Dangling from a tree for nearly seven hours, 11-year-old Prajesh Dhimant Patel was barely conscious — only the faint, slow movement of his feet, clad in bright orange shoes, hinted at a trace of life.

I am not a mountaineer. In fact, I’m not particularly athletic. But when I found myself traveling around the island of Borneo, I could not resist an attempt at climbing Mount Kinabalu, the highest ...

At least 160 people were trapped on one of the highest mountains in Southeast Asia on Friday after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck the island of Borneo, officials said. The epicenter was around five ...

Police in Malaysia have arrested four foreigners believed to have been part of a group of tourists who stripped naked at the summit of Mount Kinabalu, according to Bernama, Malaysia’s official news ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract On 5 June 2015, an earthquake of 6.0 magnitude rattled Malaysia’s Sabah state. The epicentre was near Mount Kinabalu, and shockwaves spread ...