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Mount Kinabalu (Dusun: Gayo Ngaran or Nulu Nabalu, Malay: Gunung Kinabalu) is the highest mountain in Borneo and Malaysia. With an elevation of 4,095 metres (13,435 ft), it is the third-highest peak of an island on Earth, the 28th highest peak in Southeast Asia , and 20th most prominent mountain in the world.
The Hall of fame of 21st Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon. The Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 1987 (went international in 1988). It runs every year on Mount Kinabalu in October, race valid for the Skyrunner World Series till 2010. [1]
One of the two main summit routes of Mount Kinabalu starts at the Mesilou Nature Resort and is called the Mesilou Trail. The Mesilou Trail meets the old Kinabalu Summit Trail just above Layang-Layang ( Dusun for Place of Swallows ), which is situated at approximately 2,700 m (8,858 ft).
The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or from sea level if there is no higher peak. The lowest point on that route is the col . For full definitions and explanations of topographic prominence , key col , and parent , see topographic prominence .
Sibuyan Island: Mount Guiting-Guiting: 2058 m 6752 ft 445: 0.173 Philippines: 72: Unalaska Island: Mount Makushin: 2036 m 6680 ft 2720: 0.0692 Alaska United States: 73: São Tomé: Pico de São Tomé: 2024 m 6640 ft 859: 0.122 São Tomé and Príncipe: 74: Coulman Island: Mount Hawkes: 2000 m 6600 ft 319: 0.198 Antarctica claimed by New Zealand ...
Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaiʻi is the highest peak in the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi and the entire Pacific Ocean.. The Hawaiian Islands and the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi 13 major mountain peaks [a] with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.
It provided pedestrian access to former U.S. Navy communication facilities on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii [1] with more than 3,000 steps along O‘ahu's Ko'olau mountain range. [2] The pathway has been used as a hiking trail at various times but was closed to the public in 1987. The city council voted to remove the stairs in 2021.
Jaime Viñals Massanet (born November 17, 1966) is a Guatemalan mountaineer, the first person from Central America and Caribbean region ever to climb the Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, after reaching the summit together with the American Andy Lakpass and the Danish Asmus Noreslet on an expedition from New Zealand organized by Russell Brice, Since then, he became one of the few people to ...