Climbing to great heights – despite fear


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 18 Apr 2019

KOTA KINABALU: The man, who was part of the team to climb the world’s tallest tropical tree, had a bigger challenge to overcome than the over-100m meranti tree – his fear of heights.

Jamiluddin Jami, who scaled an equivalent of 25 to 28 storeys to measure the 100.8m yellow meranti tree (Shorea faguetiana), was once an acrophobic.

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