The climb to Sarawak’s Pinnacles is brutal, breathtaking, and totally worth it


Photos By JOHNNY YONG

The iconic Mulu Pinnacles, an ancient limestone karst that has stood for millions of years, sculpted by rain, time and silence.

DEEP in Sarawak’s Gunung Mulu National Park, beyond dark rivers and deeper jungles, a trail climbs steeply to one of Borneo’s most surreal sights: a stone forest of jagged limestone blades jutting skywards like nature’s own cathedral.

These are the Pinnacles – a geological marvel and one of South-East Asia’s most arresting spectacles. Rising over 45m in places, the spires cut through the dense green like spears of silver stone, forming an alien skyline on the flanks of Gunung Api.

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