Came down from the mountain last night. Off to the Marine Park near Kota Kinabalu today.
My daughter - back in the early eighties - was the youngest kid to climb Mount Kinabalu under her own steam. (She made the top before I did that day.) She was on the front page of a local newspaper under the headline: "Tigress of Kinabalu", a tag which I am sure she wants to forget.
Now she has just done it again some 25 years later. Fortunately, the morning they made the peak was brilliantly clear.
This time I didn't go. Knees won't tolerate that kind of thing any more.
And now we are off to soak up some sun and sand and sea water.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
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5 comments:
That's a good book title, that is ..,. *g*
Glad you guys are having such a great time.
If I'd been called Tiger of Kinabalu I wouldn't want to forget it, that's a really cool tag.
hmmm...somehow Tiger of Kinabalu sounds more impressive than Tigress of Kinabalu. Tiger seems to suggest a hero. Tigress suggests snarling bad temper to me...*g*
Ah. To me, tigress suggests regal motherhood and beauty, and a healthy no-nonsense attitude, heh.
i was researching the youngest kid climbing mt. kinabalu & came across this page. i am planning a trip for my family around end of may 2007. my kids are 9 & 11 boys. The mother is worry.. :( I feel they will be ok. it's my 1st time to attempt mt. kinabalu. thus scouting some advice n experience from www..
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